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SOUL SCIENCE 

THE PROOF OF LIFE AFTER DEATH 



BY 

FRANKLIN A. THOMAS 

Author of "How to Hold Circles for Developing 

Mediumship at Home", "An Essay on the Laws of 

Psychic Development", etc. 



BOSTON 

Machine Composition Co. 

1920 



Copyright, 1920, by Franklin A. Thomas 
All Rights Reserved 



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Machine Composition Co. 
Boston, Mass., U.S.A. 



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FEB 18 1920 



SOUL SCIENCE 

Soul Science is a method which demonstrates how 
the Spirit, while in mortal form, can accomplish its 
work for Good, which is the Soul. 



CONTENTS 



I. Why We Have Written "Soul Sci- 
ence, the Proof of Life After 

Death" 17 

II. Prayer 25 

III. Our Religion 26 

IV. The Creation 34 

V. God 36 

VI. Creation of Man 52 

VII. Birth 54 

VIII. The Material Body 59 

IX. Material and Spiritual Bodies . . 63 
X. We Must Be Born Again .... 69 

XI. Spirit 75 

XII. Difference Between Dreams and 

Visions 87 

XIII. Thought 93 

XIV. Two Places 102 

XV. All Evil Is Undeveloped Good . . 107 

XVI. Body, Spirit and Soul 114 

XVII. The God to Worship 117 

XVIII. God's Laws 122 

XIX. Man-made Laws 133 

XX. How to Serve God 138 

XXI. What We Are Here and In the 

Spirit World 144 



XXII. Our Work Hebe and In the Spibit 

World 151 

XXIII. Call on the Spirits and Ask fob 

What You Want 160 

XXIV. Who Answers Prayer? . . . .168 
XXV. What Do Spirits Know? . . . . 172 

XXVI. Clothing and Characteristics of 

Spirits 176 

XXVII. The Difference Between Spirit and 

Thought 183 

XXVIII. Never Describe Nor Give a Sririt 

Message In Public .... 190 
XXIX. How To Hold Classes and Call On 

and Communicate With Spirits . 197 

XXX. Speak a Word of Cheer .... 206 

XXXI. Now Is the Time To Do Good . . 210 

XXXII. Why "Soul Science, the Proof of 

Life After Death" Should Be In 

Every Home 214 

XXXIII. The Truth 227 

XXXIV. Destiny and Heredity 230 

XXXV. Stop Publishing About Crimes and 

Murders 236 

XXXVI. Liars and Slanderers 244 

XXXVII. Obsession 253 

XXXVIII. Diseases and Treatments .... 256 
XXXIX. How To Conduct Services . . .266 

XL. Death Is Natural 277 

XLI. The Resurrection Morn . . . .280 

XLII. My World 282 

XLIII. Prayer : .... 284 

Conclusion 286 

A Request 288 



PREFACE 

Never in the history of the world was there a time 
when people more desired information concerning 
the future life after so-called death than at present. 

In every country and nation, in every tribe and 
clan of the earth, man has always been groping foj 
the light of Truth, never satisfied with the form of 
religion he possessed, but always aspiring to some 
higher form of expressing his worship of the Deity, 
or Creator. What is more natural than to inquire 
into our future state of being? 

Trusting to the Spirit of Truth we shall endeavor 
to publish a book in plain, simple words, so that any 
one who can read can understand, and will be able 
to demonstrate and prove for himself that which no 
other book teaches or explains ; namely, how to prove 
that there is no death, and that the so-called dead 
are all around and about us, and will manifest them- 
selves to us if we give them an opportunity. 

The author has not written this book with any 
selfish motive, nor for his own glory; but for the 
glory and blessing of all mankind. 



SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY 

The body of man is a beautiful home, 
The Spirit is the tenant therein; 
The Soul is the work of this tenant fair, 
The one is three, and three in one are there. 



FOREWORD 

We wish to call the reader's attention to the fact 
that the greatest sceptics we have met were those 
who did not take time to read or investigate impar- 
tially that which they condemned or were sceptical 
about. Had they thoroughly investigated the sub- 
ject from every viewpoint they would not have been 
so harsh and narrow minded in their judgment. 

We know these people are so constituted that they 
cannot perceive the truth, and cannot, or will not, 
change their opinions on certain subjects, no matter 
how vivid the evidence may be ; therefore they do not 
believe what they see and hear with their own eyes 
and ears. What, then, is the use of trying to make 
them believe what we see and hear, when they do 
not want to be convinced that they are in the wrong, 
no matter how many times the truth may be proved 
to them? We hope that the readers of "Soul Science, 
the Proof of Life after Death," are not in this cate- 
gory, but are willing to listen and endeavor to assim- 
ilate the truths contained herein for their own 
benefit. 

We have not wrtten "Soul Science, the Proof of 
Life after Death" to make any one unhappy, nor to 
change the ways of tfiose who are happy in their 
beliefs; but so desire U help those who are unhappy 
and lead them to the light, by showing them how 
they can be happy if willing to be, by thinking good 
thoughts, doing unto others as they would be done 
by, leading clean, pure liv.s, and trying to help 
others to do the same. 

We now leave it to you, kind reader, to decide 
what kind of life you will live here and hereafter. 



CREED OF SOUL SCIENTISTS 

THE WORLD 

1. We believe that the World has always ex- 
isted and always will exist. 

POWER 

2. We believe and know that there is an Om- 
nipotent Power which men call God, and that 
this Power controls the World and all things 
therein. 

GOD 

3. We believe and know that God is not an imag- 
inary Being, afar off, but He is all around and 
about us, and within us, and is just what we 
make Him. 

LIFE 

4. We believe and know that God is Life, and 
that Life fills the Universe of which we are 
a part. 

JUST LAWS 

5. We affirm that God's Laws are just to all, and 
unchangeable, and so cannot be broken nor 
changed by man. 

HEAVEN 

6. We affirm that Heaven is all around and about 
us, that we are living in it today as well as 
are the dead. 

JUDGMENT 

7. We believe and know that we shall be judged 
in the Hereafter according to our thoughts 
and deeds while in this life. 



PUNISHMENT 

8. We affirm that when we attempt to violate 
God's laws we punish ourselves; God does not 
do it. 

SUFFERING 

9. We believe and know that we must suffer 
either here or in the Spirit World for our 
wrong-doings here. 

BROTHERS AND SISTERS 

10. We know that we are all Brothers and Sis- 
ters, and that a wrong done to others is a 
wrong done to ourselves, and a good conferred 
on others is a good conferred on ourselves. 

THE SPIRITUAL BODY 

11. We know that at birth the Spirit of Life en- 
ters our material body, and thus the Spiritual 
Body is born. 

NO DEATH 

12. | We know that Spirit is Life, and Life is God, ) 
Land God can never die. 

LIFE BEYOND 

13. We know that at so-called Death we cast aside 
our material body, and that our Spiritual body 
continues its Life beyond the Grave. 

HERE AND NOW 

14. We know that we have spiritual bodies and 
eyes as well as material bodies and eyes, and 
that our spiritual eyes are given us to use, to 
see how to protect our spiritual bodies, Here 
and Now, and if we do not use them we are 
robbing ourselves of many blessings that are 
in store for us here, and shall have to pay 
the penalty for it in the Hereafter. 

OUR SPIRITUAL EYES 

15. We know that we can, if we will, open our 
Spiritual Eyes, see Spirits, and communicate 
with them. 



SOUL SCIENCE 

THE PROOF OF LIFE AFTER DEATH 

CHAPTER I 

WHY WE HAVE WRITTEN "SOUL SCIENCE, 
THE PROOF OF LIFE AFTER DEATH." 

We have been impressed to write 
this book. We can hear voices around 
calling us to write. The heavens are 
filled with them, telling us to write a 
book and to call it "Soul Science, the 
Proof of Life after Death," and we are 
sure it will be read all over the world. 
It will deliver the people from ignor- 
ance, bondage and superstition, place 



18 SOUL SCIENCE 

them in the right and only true way of 
thinking good thoughts and living pure 
lives. 

"Soul Science, the Proof of Life after 
Death," will teach and prove to the 
world that Judgment comes to people 
every day. Each person is standing be- 
fore the Judgment Bar every day of his 
life, being judged according to his 
works, whether good or evil. 

It will also prove that there is a God, 
who He is, where to find Him, and 
when is the best time to serve, or call 
on, Him, day or night, either in or out 
of trouble. It tells how you will, and 
must, stay right here, after so-called 
"death," and how you will be happy or 
suffer here, now, or after "death." 

It also teaches that one cannot love 
and fear at the same time ; fear drives 



REASONS FOR "SOUL SCIENCE" 19 

out love. If each person knew himself, 
there would be love for all. 

We long believed in a God and prayed 
to that God, but could not see or get 
light until we listened to the voice of 
reason, which told us we were in dark- 
ness, but that God was even then with- 
in us. Then we began to investigate, 
and to seek Him in prayer. We prayed 
for light and knowledge, and that our 
eyes might be opened to the light of 
Truth, and the way thereof; we prayed 
that we might know Who and where 
God is, what and where is Heaven. We 
could hear voices while praying, but, 
looking around, could see no one. The 
voices would say "Know Thyself, and 
thou wilt know Who and Where God is ; 
know the Earth and thou wilt know 
where Heaven is !" 



20 SOUL SCIENCE 

We have sought, and found that God 
is within, that Heaven is all around 
about the Earth, and within us; and 
now that we have found God and know 
where Heaven is, we want to tell you 
all about how and where to find Him 
and Heaven. We are happy and con- 
tented, and want you all to be the same. 
This is our reason for writing this 
book, "Soul Science, the Proof of Life 
after Death." 

The book is filled throughout with 
great spiritual truths which everybody 
should know, splendid inspirational 
thoughts which lift the mind to higher 
ideals of life, and stimulate to nobler 
action. We speak with authority born 
of many years of experience and study 
along these lines. Any one who reads 
it will know who, and what, he is, and 



REASONS FOR "SOUL SCIENCE" 21 

the mystery of his existence in this life, 
and in the life hereafter. 

Every page contains words of power, 
words of deep spiritual value, worthy 
of daily consideration. All is told in 
simple language, so that whoever can 
read can understand. Can any one af- 
ford to neglect the knowledge of his 
own soul? This book is the answer to 
many a question, and the clearance of 
many a doubt. It is an education in it- 
self, a guide to true Christian perfec- 
tion. 

"Soul Science" is everything that its 
name implies, and teaches the true re- 
ligious philosophy, founded on a new 
fundamental basis which is entirely 
different from that of any other sci- 
ence, philosophy or religion with which 
the world is familiar. The author does 



22 SOUL SCIENCE 

not mention, or try to prove, theories. 
He deals with facts. The book will 
prove to each one what no other book 
does — that death and the grave are not 
the end of our existence, but that life 
exists beyond the change called "death," 
and always will exist. 

All students, young and old, truth- 
seekers, honest investigators, sceptics, 
doubters, materialists, agnostics, athe- 
ists, non-conformists, deists, those who 
are bereaved by (so-called) death of 
relatives, and all who are in bondage 
of superstition and traditional error, 
should read this book; for every word 
bears the imprint of truth— scientific, 
logical, reasonable and convincing — as 
to the teachings contained in "Soul Sci- 
ence, the Proof of Life after Death." 

This book will help lift the veil of 



REASONS FOR "SOUL SCIENCE" 23 

ignorance from in front of man, and 
cause the scales of superstition to fall 
from his eyes, which have prevented 
him from seeing the light of Truth, and 
which have kept from him the knowl- 
edge of Who, what and where is the liv- 
ing God. All will agree that the pri- 
mary aspiration of the present day is 
toward educational truth, leading to- 
ward this — a new, higher and better 
religion, which is the crying need of 
the hour. 

It is not too much to say that this is 
one of the greatest books ever written ; 
it is clear and interesting, easily under- 
stood and applied, and should be in 
every home. You will add to your effic- 
iency and progress by the improve- 
ment that will become evident after you 
have read it. Whether you are begin- 



24 SOUL SCIENCE 

ning or have advanced to some extent 
along the road of life, it will be well 
worth your while to stop for a time and 
absorb the sound maxims you will find 
in "Soul Science ;" they will guide you 
to that knowledge by teaching you how 
to find peace, contentment and happi- 
ness in the world in which you live, 
thus leading you to your true goal. 



CHAPTER II 

PRAYER 

Great God, the Source of all life and 
the Ruler of all ! We want to do right; 
help us to understand Thee! 0, may 
the veil of ignorance be removed for- 
ever from our minds, and our eyes be 
opened to a clear, spiritual, sight; and, 
as we read this book, may we have a 
newer and better understanding than 
ever before, of what Life really is. May 
it fill us with inspiration, power and 
love from the many dear ones who have 
gone before, into the realm of the Spir- 
it, so that we may know and feel their 
ever-loving presence around us, helping 
us all through life to overcome our 
many obstacles, and guide us all along 
its pathway. These favors we ask in 
Thy Name. Amen. 



CHAPTER III 

OUR RELIGION 

The object of writing "Soul Science, 
the Proof of Life after Death" is to ex- 
plain and prove to the world, if it is 
ready to accept this proof, that death 
does not end all, and that life continues 
after death. We say we shall prove it, 
if people are ready to receive or accept 
this proof. The proof does not depend 
upon us, but upon them ; not what we 
do but what they do. 

Are you ready now for a test, or 
proof? We are all ready to try it the 
moment you are. Have you been seek- 
ing proof of life hereafter? Here is a 



OUR RELIGION 27 

test for you, if you want it, — one that 
you will remember as long as you live. 
The more you will think about it the 
better and happier you will be: 

Stand by the side of a corpse and 
look upon it ! Is it not the friend with 
whom you were on the very best of 
terms? Then, why do you not talk 
with him, — you, who know him so well? 
There is not now present the smile 
which it was your wont to see, but still 
he lies there in perfect form ! Feel his 
body ! Ah, it is cold ! It is not warm, 
as it was! As you have been standing 
and looking down at the corpse, you 
have been thinking of all the good he 
has done, and all the mean things you 
have ever done to him ; and, away down 
deep in your heart, you are asking him 
to forgive you. Although the world did 



28 SOUL SCIENCE 

not know anything about it, you would 
give the world, if you had it to give, had 
you only done right, but now you real- 
ize that it is too late ! What makes the 
body cold? You cannot see that any- 
thing is gone, but still, when you speak 
to it, you get no answer. It looks as 
natural as it ever did; still it will not 
speak. 

You must admit that something 
which had control over the body, and 
caused it to walk and stand and talk, is 
not now there. Yet you well know that 
there has been no part taken from the 
body that would cause it to lie in its 
present condition. That would be proof 
enough for you. It was proof enough 
for me that there had been something 
else within or without the body that 
caused it to stand, walk and talk; and 



OUR RELIGION 29 

if it be so with one body, it is so with 
all bodies, for we know they all do the 
same, always have done, and always 
will do. 

Therefore, that something must be 
within us. So we commenced to inves- 
tigate for ourselves. We found that 
there is something within us all, call it 
by what name you choose. We will call 
it "spirit." The reason we call it 
"spirit" is because it cannot be seen 
with the material or natural eyes, and 
it can penetrate matter — material sub- 
stance — however thick it may be. With 
the X-ray we can see and accurately lo- 
cate broken bones and any foreign sub- 
stances in our bodies ; this is most won- 
derful; but, with the spiritual eyes 
people have been told where they should 
dig or bore into the bowels of the earth 



30 SOUL SCIENCE 

to find oil, coal, or other minerals, 
which they did find, and have thus 
proved to the world the existence of 
spirit eyes. So, if one spirit can see 
and describe oil, coal or other minerals, 
all spirits can do so. 

As we all come into the world the 
same, we are all alike, so far as the 
spirits controlling our bodies or lives on 
this earth-plane are concerned. When 
they bury the body they do not and can- 
not bury the spirit, for that is Life, and 
Life is everywhere. When the spirit 
leaves the body, the body dies, but the 
spirit lives on, and as it leaves the body 
it takes on the spiritual form and cloth- 
ing, and looks just like what the body 
once did, but it cannot manifest itself 
strongly enough to be seen with the ma- 
terial eyes, though it can be seen and 



OUR RELIGION 31 

described accurately with the spirit 
eyes. 

We were once called to the bedside of 
a dying friend, who, we knew, could see 
spirits all around him. He knew the 
place, and what, and whom, he was go- 
ing to see in his spirit-home in the 
spirit world, when his spirit should 
leave his body. We sat by his bedside ; 
he called each member of the family; 
shook hands, and said "Good-bye" to 
each of us, then closed his eyes. We 
could see his spirit rise from the body, 
and take on the spirit form and cloth- 
ing. No tongue can tell, nor pen pic- 
ture, so beautiful a sight, which we 
shall remember as long as we live. The 
person had led a good, clean, pure life. 
We could see the spirits of his dear 
father, mother and many friends wait- 



32 SOUL SCIENCE 

ing around to welcome him into the 
spirit world. 

There is great rejoicing in our homes 
here at the birth of a child, and you call 
in your neighbors to welcome the babe. 
Just so, when there is a death and sad- 
ness here, there is birth and rejoicing 
among the spirits in the spirit-world. 

Many of our friends in spirit life 
have manifested themselves to us per- 
sonally in some way or other; for ex- 
ample, one whom we had not known to 
be dead, or had not known where he 
was living, until he manifested and told 
us. We wrote and found it was all 
true, as he had said. 

We have had many such manifesta- 
tions. In fact there are but few people 
today who have not received some man- 
ifestation during their lives, either by 



OUR RELIGION 33 

day or night, which proves to us that 
life continues after the change called 
"death", and that God is not far away, 
nor a cruel God, but He is just what we 
make Him. 

My Religion — Soul Science — teaches 
how to do right, not wrong; therefore 
we can stand up and look the world in 
the face, and fear no man. My Religion 
is a universal one, for all mankind. Its 
believers believe in doing right unto 
themselves and every one else, without 
fear or trembling. 



CHAPTER IV 



THE CREATION 



This world has always existed and 
always will exist. Some of our great- 
est astronomers tell us it takes the light 
from certain stars many millions of 
years to reach the Earth. They can- 
not tell us how long those stars have 
been shining, nor how long the world 
has been in existence. Time without 
end, and Space without limit, are two 
things no human being can possibly 
comprehend. 

There have been, and always will be, 
volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, 
changing the Earth's surface. After 



THE CREATION 35 

an earthquake, islands have often been 
discovered near where the catastrophe 
occurred, or farther away — the land 
going down in one place and rising in 
another. This Earth is always going 
through changes: it never has been, 
nor can it be, destroyed. If you will dig 
down into the bowels of the Earth you 
will go through stratum after stratum 
and will find signs of vegetation, as 
well as of animals and human beings 
that existed many millions of years 
ago; which proves that the Earth al- 
ways exists. 



CHAPTER V 



GOD 



The only God there is, the God that 
rules the Universe, is Spirit, which is 
Life, and He fills all space. He dwells 
within every person and wherever 
there is life. He is the only God there 
is; nothing can live without Him, for 
He is the life that is within all, and 
cannot be changed or made any differ- 
ent by man to please man. It does not 
make any difference what . man may 
have been taught to believe, or how 
many persons may have lived, suffered 
and died, man has not changed, and 
cannot change, that God, or life, or the 



GOD 37 

lives that exist in the world today. 

All the good or harm that any one 
may do unto others or unto themselves 
they only do unto that God which is 
within themselves, and they are judged 
by and according to that God within 
them. 

Suppose there were a God sitting on 
a throne in Heaven, and that this 
throne were right above Boston, so that 
the people of Boston could look up and 
call on that God in prayer. Suppose 
that to be the place to which they would 
have to go after death to get their re- 
wards for the good or evil deeds that 
they did while living in their bodies. If 
God sits on a throne in Heaven, and 
that throne and Heaven are right above 
Boston, then, were the people of Boston 
to start on a journey around the world, 



38 SOUL SCIENCE 

who is it that would keep in motion 
above them as they travelled around, 
the throne on which God sits, so that 
He would always be above them, and so 
that they could look up to Him, and 
could call on, and pray to, Him if they 
were in trouble? We all know that the 
earth is round, and that if we were to 
look up into Heaven to worship a God 
sitting on a throne, and that throne 
were in the Heaven above Boston, then, 
when they were to go to China that 
throne and God would have to be just 
opposite Boston — Heaven, God and 
throne ! We know that if God is sitting 
on a throne in Heaven, that throne can- 
not, or does not, move around. As there 
are people all over the world looking up 
into Heaven, worshipping that same 
God at that same hour on that same 



GOD 39 

throne, how many different Gods and 
thrones would there have to be for all 
people to look up to, pray to, call on, and 
worship ? How could it be ? 

Again, we will suppose for one min- 
ute that the only Heaven, God and 
Throne (where God lives) were right 
above Boston, and that at death the 
spirits of people all over the world 
would be compelled to leave the body, 
and would have to fly from China and 
everywhere else to the Heaven and God 
above Boston, to be judged, (rewarded 
or punished), according to the degree 
of good or evil that they have done 
while living in their bodies. 

Suppose that a person had been very 
wicked while living, and that at death, 
just as soon as his spirit were to leave 
its body, it would meet another spirit 



40 SOUL SCIENCE 

which had led an equally wicked life, 
and the first spirit were to tell the sec- 
ond how far it (the first spirit) had 
had to fly to reach Heaven, and all the 
trouble it had had, to find its way, and 
how it was punished, and had to suffer, 
after getting there, for the wrongdo- 
ings done while living in its body, and 
suppose the last spirit were to say to 
the first that it could not, and would 
not, fly so far, and would not go to 
Heaven and there suffer, as had been 
described. Who could compel it to fly 
so far to reach there, and be punished 
for all the wickedness done while liv- 
ing? 

God's laws are just at all times, and 
when we try to violate them we com- 
mence to suffer then and there for our 
transgressions. Prayer or no prayer, 



GOD 41 

we cannot and will not be saved from 
suffering when we do wrong. 

How could a God be a just God that 
could be changed by prayer today, (in- 
asmuch as thousands of thousands of 
years ago He made laws to rule the 
world and all things therein for all time 
to come,) just because somebody is in 
trouble today and calls on Him after 
having tried to violate His immutable 
laws? How could men get justice if 
there were such a God? 

The only God there is is Spirit, or 
Life, and that God dwells in us, and He 
is the only God that could or ever will 
judge us aright : and when you pray to 
God, or whatever you do, you pray and 
do it unto that God which is within you. 
He is the only God there is for you, and 



42 SOUL SCIENCE 

you are making Him just what He is 
today. 

God is not a personal being, who sits 
on an imaginary throne away up in 
Heaven, ruling the Universe from on 
High. God is a name given to the all- 
ruling Spirit of all that is, was, and is 
to be. The word "God" is a name 
coined in the English language to dis- 
tinguish one of whom we speak, in the 
same manner as we give a name to a 
child. 

God not being a personal being, 
therefore He never has written, and 
never will write, a book or books to tell 
people about His work or works in 
Heaven or on Earth. God never 
changes time, nor counts the years, nor 
names the days in the weeks, months or 
years. Neither does He say that we 



GOD 43 

shall worship Him any more on one day 
than on another, for all days are God's 
days, and He knows it, and we should 
serve Him for good at all times. 

God is life, and life is God, and 
wherever there is God there is life. God 
has always existed and always will ex- 
ist. God is all around and about us. He 
is the life that is within us, and is all- 
powerful. There is but one God, and 
that is Life. We are a part of God, and 
God is a part of us. God is just what we 
make Him. He knows no creed, race nor 
color, neither monarch, king nor ruler. 
He judges every person according to the 
thoughts, acts and deeds of such person. 
God's laws are unchangeable, cannot 
be broken, and if we attempt to violate 
His laws, which are Nature's laws, we 
must pay the penalty. God is every- 



44 SOUL SCIENCE 

where, in and on the earth, and in the 
Heavens, in the trees, grasses, flowers, 
and in every living thing. He fills the 
Universe and exists in everything, for 
everything has life. 

God does not rule the Universe from 
an imaginary throne, looking down on 
poor mortals and causing them to suf- 
fer, regardless of the number of lives 
they may have saved or the good they 
may have done during their lifetime, 
and then, at death, leave them in a posi- 
tion to suffer as long as time lasts be- 
cause they did not believe the teachings 
of men to the effect that man can for- 
give their sins after they have attempt- 
ed to violate God's laws. 

God's ways are not man's ways. God 
does not create a spirit in some special 
place away up in Heaven and then send 



GOD 45 

it down to earth to enter some new-born 
babe, to live a certain life and meet a 
certain fate, and then, after death, 
damn it and send it to Hell, to suffer for 
ever and ever, merely because a certain 
man and woman, thousands of thou- 
sands of years ago may have broken a 
commandment and paid the penalty. 
Nor does He, even if there were a 
breach of a supposititious command- 
ment, cause all mankind to be born in 
sin and death, and banished from His 
presence forever. Nor does He con- 
demn us all for all eternity if we do not 
believe in a certain man who was born 
of woman begat by man, who has lived 
and died. Nor does He say that all we 
have to do is to repent for something 
we did not do, or did not have any con- 
trol over, or to repent at the eleventh 



46 SOUL SCIENCE 

hour, and that if we believe that man 
can forgive sin, no matter what we 
have done in the past, all will be for- 
given without suffering, and we shall 
be saved! Believing in any one, after 
a person has done wrong, will never 
right that wrong, nor pay the penalty 
for the wrong, in this world, or in the 
world hereafter. 

No one ever saw a child born a mur- 
derer or a thief. We are just what we 
have been taught or have allowed our- 
selves to think or become. 

God never damns nor sends any one 
to so-called Hell. We do that ourselves, 
for we are the only ones who can damn 
ourselves: and we do damn ourselves 
when we do wrong. When we suffer 
for that wrong, that is Hell. God did 
not send us there, nor make us do the 



GOD 47 

wrong : we did it ourselves, and thus we 
must pay for our wrong-doing, by suf- 
fering — which suffering is Hell. 

The fundamental truths of "Soul 
Science, the Proof of Life after Death," 
are scientific rather than religious, be- 
cause based upon what is actually 
known. It is better to know a truth 
than to believe an error, no matter how 
sanctified is the error held up for some 
one to worship. The persistent popu- 
lar conception that, in order to be 
saved, it was necessary to sacrifice hu- 
man blood, is a gross error. "Soul Sci- 
ence" has come into the world to do 
away with such a barbaric conception. 
We are not bound and tethered to a 
one-man idea of God, and so we — the 
believers in "Soul Science" — are the 
most religious people on earth, because 



48 SOUL SCIENCE 

of the genuine desire we have to know 
the truth. The true Bible is Nature, 
and he who reads a Bible written by 
the ever-living God studies Nature. 

"To know God is to know thyself." 
This should be the aim of all branches 
of culture, and of Educational Bureaus 
and Colleges throughout the world, thus 
creating one true religion or standard 
for all mankind, which will enable each 
one to see the light, the right road to 
happiness, while in this mundane 
sphere of existence. Now is the time 
for every living mortal to know what 
his birth-right is. Every human being 
born into this world has powers lying 
dormant within him. All schools of 
learning should teach how to use those 
powers within, which, for lack of prop- 
er education, and by the ignorance and 



GOD 49 

superstition of many centuries, are hid- 
den. 

Believing in the Why, How, When, 
Where or Whom, God is, or whom He 
has sent into the world, will never make 
us any happier after death. We are 
our own God, and face the judgment 
bar of our deeds every time we do good 
or evil. 

God is not a person, who travels all 
over the Earth performing miracles in 
order to make people believe in Him: 
neither does He teach people how to 
perform miracles to prove His words, 
His works, or His power. What is 
called a miracle would be a violation of 
the laws of Nature, which are God's 
laws. A miracle is supposed to be a 
supernatural event, when in reality the 
thing supposed to be such is according 



50 SOUL SCIENCE 

to the simplest laws of Nature, al- 
though through the ignorance of man 
in not understanding those laws, it ap- 
pears a marvel. 

The native of the equatorial coun- 
tries thinks it a miracle when you tell 
him that in the North, in the winter 
season, the surface of the water hard- 
ens so that men, and even horses, can 
walk upon it. Apply warmth to an egg, 
and in a certain number of days you 
produce a living chick. Take a pot of 
earth, weigh it, plant a seed, the seed 
sprouts, the plant grows : and when the 
plant matures, if you cut it down, and 
weigh your pot of earth, you find there 
is no loss; it weighs the same. Many 
similar wonders can be produced in the 
same way, but they seem so miraculous 
that it is hard for some people to un- 



GOD 51 

derstand and believe in them. Yet they 
are all natural ; in fact God does not do 
anything unnatural, nor perform mir- 
acles, and if we are ignorant of His 
laws, and do not understand them, it is 
not His fault but ours, for not learning 
and understanding His laws. 



CHAPTER VI 



CREATION OF MAN 



Man does not know, and cannot tell, 
how and when he came into the world. 
He is as old as the world, has always 
existed, and always will exist. He may 
change his color, his looks, and the 
shape and size of his body, by his study 
and development, but he cannot add to, 
nor subtract from, any bones of his 
anatomy that would cause his coming 
generation to have more, or less, bones 
in their bodies than he had when he was 
born. Our forefathers had just a cer- 
tain number of bones in their anatomy, 
therefore we must have the same num- 






CREATION OF MAN 53 

ber in ours. All the theories and beliefs 
in the world will never increase nor di- 
minish the number of bones in our bod- 
ily structure. 

If one man is born into this world a 
certain way, all men must be born the 
same way. We are all created alike. 
We came forth from God and we will 
return to Him. Our parents gave birth 
to us ; then the spirit entered the body 
and we became like unto God. The 
spirit causes all the organs to function 
while in the mortal form, and at death 
we must return to our God, the Cre- 
ator of all. 



CHAPTER VII 



BIRTH 



No human being can give birth to a 
spirit. All our parents did was to gen- 
erate our material bodies, just as the 
builder furnishes the material and 
builds the house, to fulfil his contract; 
he cannot tenant it with the same mate- 
rial with which he built it. The house 
has windows, doors, plumbing; it is fin- 
ished with all modern improvements, 
all ready to be occupied ; yet he cannot 
tenant it. Just so with our parents. 
They fulfilled their contract when they 
furnished the material, and built our 
bodies, which they gave to the world. 



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We compared our bodies before birth 
to a growing tumor which is attached 
to the body, and on which it lives and 
grows, and from which it draws its life. 
It has no life of its own, but it grows, 
and after an operation is performed 
and the tumor removed, the patient 
lives. Just so with our body; it grows 
and lives where it is connected with 
our mother. Through the pulsation of 
the mother, her body and ours live as 
one and the same, until birth. Then 
our body is complete, and ready for the 
spirit to occupy. 

No one can, or will, live in a house 
until it is completed, neither can, nor 
will, any spirit live in the body until it 
is complete, and that is at birth. The 
moment our body comes into the world, 
the spirit of life enters into it, and it 



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becomes a living mortal, which it could 
not be until it was perfect and strong, 
for all the organs of the body to func- 
tion properly. 

Then our mother must watch and 
nourish our little bodies. After we 
have grown older and stronger we may 
notice marks on our body that we do not 
see on any other member of our fam- 
ily; we may crave certain kinds of 
fruit, vegetables or meats which we 
must have or we will be sick ; or it may 
be that those foods and fruits which 
others eat may cause us to become ill. 
Your system may call for certain food, 
and your not being able to eat and sup- 
ply a certain acid to your stomach may 
cause you to become ill. If, before your 
birth, your mother craved certain kinds 
of fruit, vegetables or meats, and did 



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not, or could not, get them, you will 
crave them, but if she got and ate what 
she wanted, you will be able to eat the 
same. If she craved and ate too much 
of them and they made her sick, you 
will not care to eat them yourself. 

Mothers, by seeing certain things, or 
thinking certain thoughts, which shock 
their entire body while in that condi- 
tion, often mark their unborn children, 
causing them to be deformed, and to 
suffer as long as they live. That our 
mother craved anything she wanted to 
eat but could not get, is no reason why 
we, craving the same thing, should eat 
too much, or become sick. Let us use 
reason at all times. If we are weak and 
crave anything, we should endeavor to 
develop our innate strength, and con- 
trol our weak points. 



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No woman, while in that condition, 
should go where there is any excite- 
ment, or look at anything that is likely 
to give her a shock. She should think 
only the purest thoughts, and lead a 
clean, pure life. In that way she will 
help her coming generation to bless the 
world. 



CHAPTER VIII 

THE MATERIAL BODY 

Our bodies are like a piano. When 
the piano was manufactured, the man- 
ufacturer did not say to it, "You must 
not allow every person to play on you. 
You will be in a public place, where 
every one that comes along will want 
to play on you. Some will not know 
how to play, and some will strike your 
keyboard so hard that it would destroy 
you, so that you would not be able to 
produce the sweet and lovely music 
that is within you ; but if you will take 
good care of yourself, you will last a 
long time, and make happy those who 
can play on you." 



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All our parents did in bringing us 
into this world was to give birth to our 
material bodies. They could not say 
to our body, no matter how dearly they 
may have loved it, "Do not allow every 
spirit that comes along to take control 
of, or impress, you and cause you to say 
or do things just the way that spirit 
may want to; for if you do, you will 
soon be worn out, and your body will 
not be fit for any good spirit to use, to 
speak through your organs the mes- 
sages of love. ,, 

When our body came into this world, 
it was material, and will exist in the 
material form as long as the spirit of 
life is within it. The spirit keeps the 
body alive. When the spirit leaves the 
body, the body returns to earth, the 
mother of all material things. No ma- 



THE MATERIAL BODY 61 

terial beings can give birth to spirits, 
because they have not that power, or 
the spirit within them to transmit to 
another. If we were to give our life 
away, so-called "Death" would take 
place, and they would have to bury our 
body. 

Our body, which is material, cannot 
of itself, speak a word, any more than 
a piano which is also material, can 
speak. Why is not the piano playing 
all the time? Because the spirit is not 
there. Who is the spirit of the piano? 
Whoever fingers the keys of that piano 
is the spirit of it. Our body only speaks 
as the spirit impresses or shows it 
things. With that same spirit we may 
see spirits or hear spirit voices, feel, 
sense, or receive impressions from 
them, anywhere, day or night 



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When death takes place, they bury 
the body. If it were the body that 
spoke, they would never bury it. Look 
at a corpse. There it lies, just as nat- 
ural as life. Why doesn't it speak? 
Why is it not Mr. or Mrs. So-and-So? 
Because the spirit has left the body! 
Thus it is the spirit that causes the 
body to speak. It is the spirit, mani- 
festing itself through the brain and vo- 
cal organs of the person. 






CHAPTER IX 

MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL BODY 

Every person is born into this world 
with a material body. At birth, spirit 
enters into the material body, and be- 
comes a perfect human being. The ma- 
terial body is merely a house, or work- 
shop, in which the spirit works. The 
body could neither grow, stand, walk, 
nor talk, nor could its organs function, 
if it were not for the spirit, which 
causes it to act and move ; by the spirit 
manipulating the brain cells and other 
parts, the body thinks and acts. 

The spirit has absolute control over 
the body, and can leave it at will, or 



64 SOUL SCIENCE 

it can allow other spirits to enter, 
which may use the vocal organs to 
speak even in unknown tongues. The 
person, when speaking, may not know 
the language he is speaking, nor be 
able to interpret it. 

If the spiritual cord which connects 
the body with the spirit is severed, the 
body dies. One spirit may enter and 
control the body for a few seconds or 
minutes, sometimes for hours, days, 
weeks, months or even years; then 
leave the body and never return to it. 
That spirit had a mission to perform, 
and by entering the body, and over- 
powering the original spirit, and con- 
trolling it, could accomplish its mis- 
sion ; then that spirit after leaving the 
body, will go on until it can find some 
other body of which it can take con- 



MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL BODIES 65 

trol, to continue the work which it 
did, or wanted to do, or should have 
done, while in its own body. 

When one spirit leaves the body, 
another may enter, and so on until the 
spiritual cord is broken. Whatever 
persons think, that is what they talk 
about, and that kind of spirit has con- 
trol of them. As they can only think 
one thought, and speak one word, at a 
time, only one spirit can control a per- 
son at one time, even though one spirit 
may have control one minute, and an- 
other the next. 

When the spirit that takes posses- 
sion of our bodies, comes and goes, it 
often causes lines or may even change 
our appearance ; for when you are cry- 
ing, the spirit of a person who used to 
cry, while living, has possession of 



66 SOUL SCIENCE 

you, and causes you to do what he did ; 
similarly, when you are laughing, or 
whatever you are doing. When you 
are crying the wrinkles in your face 
are different from those that appear 
when you are laughing. When one is 
angry, he is angry all over, from the 
crown of his head to the soles of his 
feet. He feels like kicking, biting, or 
striking, all at the same time. An 
angry spirit has possession of him, and 
that is what he is at the time. When a 
person is drunk, a drunken spirit has 
control of him, and causes him to be as 
that spirit was, while living here. 

It is just so with whatever a person 
may be doing; whatever trade or pro- 
fession he may be working or engaged 
in, there are spirits that did work, or 
wanted to work at that same trade or 



MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL BODIES 67 

profession, who are trying to impress 
that person to do as they did while liv- 
ing. 

All persons should know themselves, 
and not allow every kind of spirit to en- 
ter and take possession of them, just 
because those spirits wish to progress 
out of certain conditions. It is true, 
every time a person takes on a condi- 
tion, or allows the spirit to take control 
of, or impress, him to do as it wants, it 
helps that spirit to progress out of that 
condition, but no person should allow 
another person, or spirit, to impress gt 
take control of his body without his 
consent, if it will injure him or his spir- 
it in any way — merely to please an- 
other spirit or person, 

We do not blame spirits for asking, 
or trying to impress, people to do as 



68 SOUL SCIENCE 

they once did while living, but we do 
blame people for not seeing the spirits 
which are around them, when their 
spiritual eyes have been given them 
for that purpose, and they do not use 
them. 

Every person should be able to see 
spirits with his spirit eyes at any and 
all times, without losing his own indi- 
viduality. It is not necessary for a per- 
son to lose his personality, in order to 
see and communicate with spirits. 

It is the duty of all to develop and 
open their spiritual eyes, that they may 
see spiritual things, as well as material 
things, that are all about them every- 
where, no matter where they may go or 
what they may do. We cannot rid our- 
selves of them, or get away from them, 
for wherever there is life, there are 
spirits. 



CHAPTER X 

WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN 

We are born with a material, then a 
spiritual, body. First we are born 
with a material body; then the spirit 
enters into it, and it becomes a living 
body. The first time the spirit of life 
entered our material bodies we were 
born, and, each time a spirit takes con- 
trol of us, we are born again. How, 
and where, do we get those thoughts we 
are thinking? Is there some machine 
in the back of the head, or any other 
part of the body, grinding them out, 
and giving or feeding them to the 
brain? The brain is matter which could 



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not exist of itself or speak a word with- 
out the spirit; so every thought that 
impresses the brain must be alive. 
There is no such thing as dead spirits 
or dead thoughts. 

Every time a spirit or thought — 
(call it by what name you choose, it is 
life, and life is everywhere) — takes 
possession of us, we are being born 
again. All these millions and billions 
of people who have lived on this Earth, 
and whose thoughts and spirits are still 
alive and among us, and those who are 
now living in the material body, are 
thinking and sending out thoughts and 
conditions which, in turn, take control 
of others, who then are being born 
again. 

When a person does something one 
minute, and is sorry for it the next, and 



WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN 71 

does not know what caused him to do 
such a thing, when it was contrary to 
his will, or way of living or thinking, 
a spirit has come in, and over-powered, 
and taken control of, his spirit, causing 
him to do just the way the spirit did. 
That was the first time he ever did such 
a thing ; thus he was born again with a 
new spirit. That same person can, if 
he wishes, call on a good spirit to come 
in and impress, or take control of, his 
own spirit, which will cause him to say 
and do something good ; thus he is born 
again. 

There are two facts in this world: 
Spirit and Matter. Destroy Matter 
and Spirit remains. Matter cannot live 
without Spirit, but Spirit can live with- 
out matter. You may destroy matter 
but there is no power that can kill or 



72 SOUL SCIENCE 

destroy spirit, for spirit is life, and life 
is God, and God, or Life, has always ex- 
isted, and always will exist. So we are 
a part of God which rules and governs 
the spirit world. 

Each one of these spirits who were 
human on the earth-plane had its own 
characteristics and habits, either good 
or evil, and that spirit is now what- 
ever it was then. As spirits have the 
power of impressing mortals with these 
same characteristics, they are the cause 
of mortals doing and thinking just as 
they, the spirits, did while they were 
living in the body, and thus these mor- 
tals are born again. 

Then again, as a person thinks, so 
he attracts just that kind of spirits to 
him, and is influenced either for good 
or evil, and so is born again. Thus these 



WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN 73 

spirits take control of the bodies of 
mortals, and are rulers of those bodies. 
As we think, and as our thoughts at- 
tract to us certain spirits, they take 
possession of our bodies and use us for 
their own purposes, and thus we are 
born again. 

But we can choose the kind of spirit 
that we wish to rule or guide us, to 
make either a Heaven or a Hell for our- 
selves or others. You have chosen your 
Ruler. He is your God, and He judges 
you according to your thoughts, acts, 
and deeds. He is a just God, and the 
only God that can, and will, judge you 
rightfully, as you stand each day before 
the judgment throne, and know you are 
getting that which belongs to you ; you 
cannot, and will not, get anything else 
but what belongs to you. If you did, 



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you would be robbing someone of his 
reward, which you cannot do before 
your Judge and your God. Go wher- 
ever you may, you cannot hide from 
Him, for He is within you, and so you 
must be born again. 






CHAPTER XI 



SPIRIT 



Every person can see spirits and ma- 
terial things with the spiritual eyes, 
but does not give his spirit the credit 
for it. Every patent that, was ever in- 
vented was seen with the spiritual eyes 
before it was worked out with the 
hands. Whenever any one starts any- 
thing he sees with his spiritual eyes 
what there is to be done, and, before 
he has commenced work on it, can de- 
scribe and tell, just how it will look. 
The farmer can see, describe and tell 
all about his crops before they are 
planted. The architect and carpenter 



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can describe a house, and, before they 
build it, can show you how it will look. 
The storekeeper can tell what his store 
windows will look like, before he has 
placed any goods in them ; and the mil- 
liner and dressmaker can see and de- 
scribe just how a certain hat or dress 
will look on you before showing it. They 
all see with their spiritual eyes, but do 
not give their spiritual eyes the credit 
for it. 

Or it may be that a person will read 
about a collision of two trains which 
are many miles away, can almost hear 
the crash as they collide, and can spirit- 
ually see the destruction and death of 
the people aboard, as the trains meet, 
can see the people crawling from them ; 
can see the wreck burning, and people 
trying to extinguish the fire. They see 



SPIRIT 77 

it with their spiritual eyes, just as 
though they were there, yet are uncon- 
scious of the fact. Everything that we 
read~ is pictured before us, and we see 
it with our spirit eyes, just as 
though we were standing before it and 
were looking at it with our material 
eyes; thus we read it with the spirit 
eyes as it is pictured to us. 

We have material and spiritual bod- 
ies. Material and spiritual eyes are 
given to us to see material and spiritual 
things, and to see how to protect our 
material and spiritual bodies. Our 
spiritual bodies need protection, and 
should be protected, as well as our ma- 
terial bodies. 

We all have spiritual eyes, which 
should be developed, so that we may use 
them to see how to protect our spiritual 



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bodies. God, or Spirit, — call Him or It 
by what name you choose — has no fav- 
orites. He has given all of us these 
eyes to use, and if we do not use them 
we are robbing ourselves of blessings 
that are ours ; we are blinded to truth, 
and are hindering our spiritual unfold- 
ment and progression here and in the 
spirit world! The only way we can, 
or ever will, progress, or unfold our 
spirtiual selves, is by using the spirit 
that is within us ; so, when we say and 
take for granted that believing is all 
that is required of us, we are only de- 
ceiving ourselves. 

It is your works that will save you, 
not what you believe. By your fruits 
shall you be known. 

For years the author has been able to 
see, spiritually, animals and human 



SPIRIT 79 

forms, some of which were around peo- 
ple. Some looked as if they were going 
on errands, carrying something, others 
seemed to be traveling. We could see 
some of them in a form of light, others 
more like shadows; the mists or shad- 
ows were not all the same tint or shade ; 
we did not know that these mists or 
shadows were disembodied mortals 
trying to manifest themselves to us in 
that way. We were not taught to be- 
lieve in such things, and knew nothing 
about spirits. We paid no attention to 
them, thinking everyone could see them 
the same as we. 

We also saw various forms of ani- 
mals different from any we had ever 
seen alive, going to and fro, walking or 
crawling on the earth. This went on 
until we commenced to investigate for 



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ourselves by welcoming and speaking 
to the mists, shadows and forms as 
though they were human beings. 

Finally, now and then, some spirit 
form of a human being would come so 
close that we could see its lips move 
and hear them speak; and sometimes 
when we would go to speak to or call 
on a friend, a form would manifest it- 
self, of someone who had been dead 
probably for a number of years, whom 
we would describe to the person we 
were talking to, explaining how and 
why the spirit was around him, and in 
nine out of ten cases, the person would 
recognize the spirit and message at 
once, seeming to give the spirit great 
pleasure and satisfaction; and we 
found that every time a spirit mani- 
fested itself and was described and rec- 



SPIRIT 81 

ognized, it gained in strength, and it 
was easier for it to manifest again; 
so that every time that we saw it and 
spoke to it, it would come closer to us. 

Now we can see spirits all around us 
and around everyone else, with our 
spiritual eyes, and think no more of 
talking to and with the spirits than we 
do with mortal friends. They look and 
are as natural in spirit life as they 
were in mortal life. We love to talk 
to them, and have them around us; 
equally do they love to talk to, and be 
with, us. It is a great blessing, to see 
and know that our dear loved ones in 
spirit are around us watching over us, 
and trying to impress, advise and pro- 
tect us, the same as they did while they 
were living in their bodies. 

We have told you in other chapters 



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that our body is material and that no 
material body can speak or exist with- 
out life, that life is spirit, and that, 
when we speak, it is not our body that 
speaks, for the body is material, but it 
is the spirit that dwells within us 
which speaks, by manipulating certain 
organs, and thus we can see, hear and 
understand one another. 

Our material body could not, and 
would not, see or hear anything if it 
were not for the spirit that is within 
the body, which is the life of the body. 
Therefore every time that we speak it 
is the spirit that is within us speaking 
to the other person's spirit; so, to 
whomever we speak, we are speaking 
to the spirit of that person; in other 
words, it is the spirit speaking to an- 
other spirit, for spirit is the only thing 



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that can speak. Therefore every time 
we speak we are in communication 
with a spirit, and are speaking to that 
spirit, whether we recognize it or not. 

Spirits can and do manifest to peo- 
ple, and can show themselves to any 
person whose spirit eyes are opened. 
The only way that you will ever see 
spirits is with your spirit eyes. If a 
spirit were to materialize before you, 
you could not, and would not, see the 
spirit; you would only see the material 
form that the spirit has assumed in 
order that it can be seen with the mate- 
rial eyes. The spirit would be within 
the materialized form the same as the 
spirit of a person living which dwells 
within the body of flesh. That spirit 
can leave that materialized form when- 



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ever it so desires, and may never ap- 
pear that way again. 

Invisibility does not prove non-ex- 
istence. Many things occur to us as to 
which we doubt and waver, simply be- 
cause of our spiritual feebleness; we 
cannot understand them. If we were 
to develop and use our spirit eyes they 
would get stronger, and we could then 
understand all things. 

If all had their spirit eyes opened, 
they would see spirits which they can- 
not see with their material eyes; they 
would be able to see spirits with their 
spirit eyes around each person, and 
would know how the spirits take con- 
trol of people the way they do. 

We assure you that if every man 
could see spiritually what was around 
him, he would drive the evil spirits 



SPIRIT 85 

away, and not allow such spirits and 
conditions to remain and take posses- 
sion of him; he would then, with his 
spiritual eyes opened, attract the good 
spirits, and thus be happier himself 
and make others happier. He would 
also enjoy life's blessings which are all 
around him now, because he could then 
see the good spirits and could call for, 
and would receive, their help. 

The Creator has given us all spirit- 
ual eyes to use, and He expects us to 
use them here and now, and see the 
spirits who are all about us, and know 
what is going on in the spirit world, so 
we will know how to be happy here by 
seeing and talking with those who are 
already there, who will advise us if we 
will only ask for their help. We should 
all lead clean, pure lives, and call on the 



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good spirits to come and manifest them- 
selves to us, showing and guiding us in 
the way that they would have us to go 
all through life, which will lead us to 
happiness and light. 

Faith has nothing to do with what 
you read or practise. You do not need 
to have Faith to see and talk with a per- 
son. Neither do you have to have Faith 
to see or talk to a spirit if your spirit 
eyes are open, for you will see the spirit 
and know to whom you are talking. 

It used to be said that we had five 
senses. Now Science claims we have 
eight. So, any person having use of all 
his senses should be able, by following 
the teachings of "Soul Science, the 
Proof of Life after Death", to open his 
spirit eyes, and thus see, discern, and 
receive impressions from, the spirit 
forces that are all around. 



CHAPTER XII 

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DREAMS AND 
VISIONS 

There is a difference between a 
Dream and a Vision, yet both take 
place when your muscles are thorough- 
ly relaxed, or when you are asleep, and 
you call them all dreams. Dreams are 
caused either by a person lying on his 
back, with the back of his head (which 
is the base of the brain) resting on the 
pillow, thus cutting off the circulation 
— stopping the flow of blood to the 
brain — and affecting the brain at that 
time, or by a person eating too much 
just before retiring at night, which will 
also affect the flow of blood to the brain, 



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thus causing the brain to cease its 
proper functioning. In other words, 
causing the mind to ramble causes you 
to dream, which fact you may or may 
not remember in the morning. 

Just after an operation, when a per- 
son is reviving from the effects of the 
anaesthetic that has been administered 
to him, he may commence to talk and 
keep on talking while in that condition, 
which is caused by the effect which the 
anaesthetic has on the brain, and flow 
of the blood to the brain, for the time 
being. All this may be called dream- 
ing. 

You may retire at night the same as 
usual, and, while asleep, see some per- 
son who is living, whom you may not 
have seen or heard from for months or 
years, or you may see the spirit of some 



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one who may have been dead for years. 
In the morning you may remember all 
you have seen in your dream, and may 
tell some one, what a vivid and wonder- 
ful dream you had last night. If you 
will remember you were not lying on 
your back with your head pressing 
hard on the pillow, the same as you 
were when you were dreaming. Hence, 
this was not a dream but a vision. 

People have always had dreams and 
visions, and always will have them. 
Sometimes it is very difficult to distin- 
guish the difference between the two. 
Before a person can, or will, go to sleep, 
he must relax, (that is, become pas- 
sive,) in every muscle of his anatomy, 
and the minute he relaxes he will go to 
sleep at once: he cannot keep awake. 
While in that relaxed condition his 



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spirit may let in another spirit to take 
control of his body, (as we have ex- 
plained more fully in other chapters,) 
and his own spirit may leave its body 
and travel many miles and see many 
things, or other spirits may come to his 
bedside and visit his spirit at night, and 
in the morning he may remember it all, 
and may talk about it for days, saying 
what a wonderful dream he had had, 
when really it was not a dream, but a 
vision. As he has not had it explained 
to him, he did not know the difference 
between a dream and a vision. 

The author has traveled extensively, 
but never has been in a place that he 
had not seen in spirit, months, or even 
years, before he visited it. We know 
that our spirit has left our body at 
night while we were asleep, and has 



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traveled, and showed us different 
places, and when we would go, or write, 
to those places and ask if such-and- 
such were the case, the answer would 
be, "It was just as you say in your let- 
ter." 

We have learned how to become re- 
laxed while we are in the waking state, 
so that our spirit can and does leave 
our body and go to any part of the 
world it chooses, to see what it wishes, 
then return to our body. While in the 
waking state we can see it and feel it 
go and come, therefore, we do not have 
to wait to retire for the night in order 
to become relaxed, so that our spirit 
may leave our body, before we can see 
other spirits, and know that our spirit 
has been out of our body. 

When you are thoroughly relaxed, 



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you are then in a passive condition, and 
it is much easier for your spirit to leave 
your body or for other spirits to come 
and reveal to you what they desire, 
than when you are in a positive condi- 
tion. 



CHAPTER XIII 



THOUGHT 



Every person attracts to himself 
spirits according to the thoughts he 
thinks. Thoughts are things, and every 
thought has its color, and every color 
has its vibrations. The very walls of 
our home are pictured with our 
thoughts. Oh, could we picture the 
power of thought before you, so that 
you would never forget it and the effect 
it has upon your happiness in this life 
and in the spirit world, it would cause 
you to change your thoughts and your 
entire life. 

Go where we may, do what we will, 



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we cannot help but think, and as we 
think we leave a trail of thought be- 
hind us. Other people following in our 
footsteps gather up the thoughts that 
we leave behind us, which may cause 
them to do the things we were doing or 
thinking of doing. By thinking evil 
thoughts we are sowing seeds of evil, 
and sooner or later they come home to 
us as fruit, because they are ours, and 
we will reap our harvest either in the 
flesh or in the spirit realm. 

We are all architects and builders, 
and are planning and building and 
sending into the spirit-world material 
thoughts, words, and deeds of which 
our home in the spirit-world is being 
built. 

Everyone must go to his own home : 
you cannot go to ours, neither can we 



THOUGHT 95 

go to yours, and we will tell you now, 
dear brother and sister, your home in 
the spirit-world depends upon your 
thoughts, which are the kind of mate- 
rial you send there, and if you are not 
sending any sunshine, you will never 
find love or happiness there waiting 
for you. 

When we are born into the world we 
know nothing. The spirit takes control 
of our body, and we begin to develop it 
accordingly. We go to school to learn, 
and learn only that which others know, 
and to do what they do. How and where 
do we keep all that which we learn and 
see while in and out of school? 

Have we a record of everything in 
our lives? Is there a record of our 
thoughts, words and deeds, or whatever 
we see, hear, or feel, — and the impres- 



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sions we receive? Are they recorded 
or stored away somewhere in, or on, 
our brain? If so, how about the man 
who saw a tiny drop of water? If 
that was recorded with a dot and dash, 
or other imprint, somewhere on his 
brain, would it not stand to reason, 
that if the same man saw an ocean of 
water and traveled across it, there 
would be a larger dot, dash or imprint 
somewhere on his brain. Or, if a man 
were to see an ant-hill, and it were re- 
corded on the brain, there must be an 
imprint different in size from the im- 
print that would be recorded if he 
should see the Rocky Mountains. The 
Scientists and the Doctors have never 
been able, with their most powerful 
magnifying glasses, to find any dots or 



THOUGHT 97 

dashes, marks or impressions, on the 
brain. 

The only difference they see between 
the brain of a child and that of an 
adult, is a little more water in the 
child's than in an older person's brain. 
If that be true, how do we remember 
what we see or hear during our mate- 
rial life in traveling around the world? 
How do we remember the appearance 
of many places, lands, animals and 
people that we see? We see them with 
our spiritual eyes! If everything we 
see were recorded on the brain, we 
know there would be a limit to the 
brain's capacity. 

When the man who has never been 
outside of his county is seeing and 
talking all the time about the things he 
sees around him ; if his brain is covered 



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with what he sees, how about the man 
who has traveled all over the world? 
How would his brain have space enough 
to record all he sees and hears during 
his entire life? — No! Our brains are 
free from dots, dashes or other im- 
prints. 

You describe your old home when 
you are many miles away from it; you 
give a minute description of the house, 
barn, all the out-buildings, cow-yard, 
meadow, trees, farm-land and road in 
and around the barn and house. How 
do you see them? Is there any impres- 
sion in or on your brain? No! You 
see them with your spiritual eyes. 

Everything that you describe in that 
way you see with the spiritual eyes; 
there is nothing too close, or too far, or 
too small, but that it can be seen with 



THOUGHT 99 

the spiritual eyes. If you have ever 
lived in California and are living in 
Boston, sitting in your apartment, 
and someone were to ask you to describe 
your old home in California, you would 
see it instantly with your spiritual eyes 
and could give a full description of the 
same. 

Your spirit does not wait for you or 
someone to open the door so it can go 
out, down this or that railroad or wag- 
on road, through this or that valley, 
tunnel, or over this or that mountain. 
The moment the spirit leaves you, it 
goes right through the walls of your 
room, through buildings and mountains 
direct to your old home, sees the home, 
and then you describe it as you see it 
with the spirit eye. There is not any- 
thing too high or too low, or too thick, 



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that spirit or spirit forces cannot pene- 
trate, see and describe to us. 

As we have told you before, our bod- 
ies are material and cannot see any- 
thing if the spirit does not show it to 
us. The spirit is the life that is in our 
bodies, and if it were not for that life 
we could not see anything with our ma- 
terial eyes. You cannot show or de- 
scribe "Nothing," because it does not 
exist. We ask you to read a book; if 
you did not have the book before you, 
you could not see it ; if you did not see 
it, you could not read it nor describe it. 
If you describe a book with your mate- 
rial or spiritual eyes the book must be 
there or you could not see it, and not 
seeing it with either your material or 
spiritual eyes you could not describe it. 

We see and describe according to our 



THOUGHT 101 

thoughts, for thoughts are things. Ac- 
cording as we think, we attract that 
class of spirits to us, and that is what 
we are. 



CHAPTER XIV 



TWO PLACES 



There are only two places. These 
are: Heaven (or the ether which sur- 
rounds us) and the "Earth." If we are 
not inside of the Earth, we must be on 
its surface, or in Heaven. 

In the countless ages of the past, 
when people died, where did their spir- 
its go when they left their bodies, if 
they did not stay here in the atmo- 
sphere which surrounds the Earth? 
There is no other place for them to go 
to, for we are in Heaven today as much 
as we ever will be. The earth and air 
about us are teeming with all kinds of 



TWO PLACES 103 

life, while we in the midst of it, are as 
ignorant of it as if it did not exist. 

All the millions and millions of spir- 
its of people who have lived on this 
earth-plane are among us today. This 
is their Heaven as well as ours, the only 
Heaven there is, and the only difference 
between us and them is, that they have 
left their bodies of flesh and taken on 
spiritual bodies. If our spiritual eyes 
were opened, we could see those spirits, 
the same as they see us. They are all 
around and among us today in spirit, 
as much as if we, who are in the flesh, 
had laid aside our material bodies and 
become as they, spirits also, for we are 
spirit clothed with flesh. 

When a person laughs, he does not 
have to go to any certain place to laugh, 
but he laughs right where he is; or, 



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when a person is happy or sad or suf- 
fering, these spirits are all right here 
with him and they may be within a few 
feet of one another. Just so in the spirit 
world, or Heaven. Whether we do right 
or wrong, we all stay right here on this 
earth-plane, and at our so-called 
"death" we change form and enter our 
Heaven, or the spirit world, and will 
either be happy or sad according to our 
life's work. 

Hell is not a place — either below the 
Earth, or in the bowels of the Earth — 
to which all who attempt to violate 
God's laws must go for punishment. 
Hell is a condition, and is independent 
of place. There is no chance for people 
to escape punishment for wrong-doing. 
They must pay the penalty for the 
wrong until they progress out of that 



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condition that men call Hell. 

Just think how pure and innocent 
every child was when it was born, al- 
though its parents may not have been 
good. That child cannot be held re- 
sponsible for what some one else has 
done or may do through life. It makes 
no difference how innocent a person 
was when born, he has said or done 
something in life he was sorry for lat- 
er. When he was sorry for doing wrong, 
he was suffering remorse for it, which 
suffering is hell, and that is the only 
hell there is. 

Man is making his own hell and liv- 
ing in it, when he attempts to violate 
God's laws and does wrong; he brings 
upon himself his own punishment; he 
must suffer, and that is hell. We need 
not wait until after death, to find, or 



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go to, hell to suffer, for it is within us 
when we do wrong. As man lives within 
himself, so is he living in Heaven or 
hell, but after he has paid the penalty 
for wrong-doing, he does not suffer any 
more, and has no more hell within him. 
He can think and do good and can live 
and have Heaven within him. All per- 
sons make their own selection of their 
abiding-place, by their thoughts and 
deeds. The only hell there is, is just 
what they make for themselves, which 
is the condition within themselves. 



CHAPTER XV 

ALL EVIL IS UNDEVELOPED GOOD 

Everything that grows is good. Al- 
though we may not like the taste of it, 
or it may not agree with us, or be fit 
for food, still it may be good for some 
other purpose, and just because we may 
not be able to eat it, or like the taste of 
it, or do not know its use, we should not 
condemn it. Some one else may like it, 
or it may be very useful in curing some 
disease; while if we ate it, it might 
poison us or cause us to become ill. 

You never saw or heard of anything 
growing and decaying at the same 
time. If it decayed, it could not grow. 



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If the fruit is not picked when ripe on 
the tree, it will fall to the ground, be- 
come bruised, decay and must return to 
the earth from which it came. Should 
we say it is the fault of the fruit, and 
that it is evil, and no good? Not so! 
All evil is undeveloped good ! If the de- 
cayed fruit which is lying on the 
ground had been picked from the tree 
and used, it would not have decayed. 

While the fruit is on the tree it 
draws its life from the tree, the tree 
draws its life from the earth ; then the 
fruit comes from the earth, and it must 
return to it in some form or other, 
sooner or later ; but because it does, that 
is no sign that the tree is evil and 
should be cut down and destroyed. 

Our parents are the tree ; we are the 
fruit; our parents were good, why 



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should we be evil? They left good here 
for us, why will we do wrong when 
there is good all around us? If we 
could only see the good in everything 
and use it, and know how to attract 
good to us, and have it within ourselves 
as part of our being, then we could give 
out or impart it to others. 

We can only give out that which we 
have within us. If there is evil within 
us, we are undeveloped. If we were 
developed we could see the good and 
would drive the evil away, and attract 
the good to us, and would do good to 
those with whom we come in contact. 

Every person wishes to do right. 
Why, then, do they do evil? There 
never was a person who was born a 
thief or murderer; when he was born 
he was innocent, and knew no evil. 



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Then, why are there so many thieves or 
murderers in the world today? Because 
men do not know how to protect them- 
selves from the evil spirits of those who 
did evil deeds while they were here in 
the body, and who try to impress mor- 
tals to do the same as they did. 

Those who commit crimes do as they 
are impressed, never stopping to con- 
sider the consequences. If they under- 
stood how to control themselves they 
would not allow the evil conditions and 
impressions of these spirits to take pos- 
session of them. Therefore, that which 
has possession of us makes us what we 
are. If one could see, spiritually, that 
which causes one to do evil, he would 
turn from his evil ways and lead a good 
life. 

There are spirits everywhere, all 



ALL EVIL IS UNDEVELOPED GOOD HI 

around and among us, who do, and are 
impressing us to do, what they did or 
wanted to do while living in their bod- 
ies. If a man has worked at the carpen- 
ter's trade for the greater part of his 
life and should go to England and work 
for a living, he would naturally work at 
his trade, for that is all he knows how 
to do. If you know nothing here in this 
life, you will not know anything in the 
spirit life; but you will, and must, learn 
in the spirit life. 

If you lived here all these years on 
earth in ignorance when there were so 
many different ways for you to have 
learned while here, then, when you pass 
into spirit life, you will see how you 
have robbed the good spirits that would 
have come in and impressed you; then 
you would have been happier and 



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would have enjoyed life's blessings, 
which would have made the spirit hap- 
pier too ; but you robbed the spirit of its 
chance to do that work. 

Ignorance is no excuse in spirit life. 
Because of not learning here, your spir- 
it will have to learn there, in the spirit 
world, and while your spirit is learning 
what you should have learned while it 
was in your body, it will be compelled 
to remain in one place until it has 
learned its lesson. The spirit cannot, 
or will not, have a chance to go about, 
enjoying the blessing it should have, 
had it done its work while in the flesh. 

It will not make any difference what 
excuse you may think you have for not 
doing your duty, while in your body. 
You will find that excuses do not count 
in the spirit world. It does not make 



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any difference what your belief may be, 
or what you have been taught to be- 
lieve, or of what race or color you are, 
or whether you be nobleman, ruler, or 
king; if you have done wrong instead 
of right, and have not already paid for 
it in the flesh, not in dollars and cents, 
but in suffering, you must pay, then, in 
the spirit world. 

The laws that cause you to suffer or 
to be happy were not made by or for, 
man, to please man, but are natural 
laws. According to those laws we our- 
selves write our life's history, and are 
judged by those laws, which no man 
can change or erase. Man-made laws 
are changeable. God's Laws are not ! 



CHAPTER XVI 

BODY, SPIRIT, AND SOUL 

The body is the house, the Spirit is 
the Life, and the Soul is the Good which 
the spirit creates and accomplishes, 
through the body. The body is the house 
in which the spirit lives and does its 
work, and the spirit is the life of the 
body. The body could not exist without 
the spirit, which manipulates the 
brain and causes the body to think, 
talk, and perform its various functions. 
While the spirit is causing the body to 
do and act as it does, the good that is 
accomplished by the spirit, in its work, 
is the Soul. 



BODY, SPIRIT AND SOUL H5 

Our bodies are like an organ in the 
house. The person who fingers the 
keys of that organ is not the organ, but 
is the life or the spirit of the organ, for 
when he fingers the keys of the organ 
and causes it to play, he is then the spir- 
it of that organ. The organ could not 
have played of itself, without the spir- 
it. The music which the spirit causes 
to be played by the organ is the Soul of 
the organ. The organ could not have 
produced the sounds of music of its own 
accord, but must have the assistance of 
the spirit of Life, as the organ is mate- 
rial and has no life of its own ; neither 
could the spirit produce music of itself, 
as it must have material through which 
to produce results. Thus, spirit and 
matter are necessary to produce the 
music which is the soul of the organ. 



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For completeness there must be 
Body, Spirit and Soul, three in one ; for 
the body is not complete without the 
spirit of life, therefore it has no power 
of its own, neither can it accomplish 
anything. Spirit is always active, 
working through material means to 
achieve its mission, and the good which 
it produces is the Soul. Neither Body 
nor Soul can exist without Spirit, which 
is Life. 



CHAPTER XVII 

THE GOD TO WORSHIP 

The God we (Soul Scientists) wor- 
ship is not an imaginary, man-made 
God, sitting upon a great throne, some- 
where away up in the skies, but He is 
always right here with us. We know 
our body is material, and we know that 
of itself, it cannot speak a word. When 
God, who is the Spirit which has con- 
trol of our body, leaves it, then the body 
dies. 

There is something within the body 
that makes it talk, walk, and move 
about. We know that something is 
alive within us, and that life makes us 



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feel, act, and do just as we do, with our 
bodies; our body could not exist in its 
present form, without that life. 

When we hear anything in answer to 
our desire, it is the spirit that is within 
us, talking to us ; it has control over our 
body and may cause us to laugh, and 
change the expression and shape of the 
face for that moment; we could not 
have laughed had it not been for the 
spirit within us, because we live, think, 
act, (whistle, sing, or cry,) according 
to the spirit that is within us; then it 
is the spirit within us that causes us 
to be happy or sad. We know when we 
do right or do wrong, because we feel 
either happy or sad. We do not have 
to ask anyone how we feel, for no one 
can tell us. It is the spirit that is with- 
in us that tells us when we do right or 



THE GOD TO WORSHIP 119 

do wrong, without our asking it. 

That Spirit is our God. It is within 
us and controls us, at all times. The 
Spirit of Life is the only God to wor- 
ship, and when you pray, pray to Him. 
He is the only One who can, or will, 
hear and answer prayer for you; and 
do not forget it. You do not have to 
get on the house-top, or erect large 
buildings, which may cost thousands or 
hundreds of thousands of dollars, in 
which to pray aloud, so that He will 
be able to hear you pray; neither is He 
far away, sitting upon a great, imagin- 
ary throne, ruling the world from on 
high ; nor is He in some foreign, or un- 
known, land where He saves, elects or 
selects only a few to worship Him. He 
is today sitting on the throne in every 
person's heart. 



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We know when we feel happy or sad, 
and we know what we were doing or 
thinking about when we were feeling 
that way. We know what caused us to 
feel happy or unhappy, and what was 
within us, which caused those feelings. 
Then why not choose to worship the 
good spirit within us? Our body is 
dead, so far as speaking of its own ac- 
cord, without the spirit that is within 
it causing it to stand, walk, talk and 
exist in its present form. 

The God to worship is the God of 
Love. He will drive out all fear, hat- 
red, and jealousy from our hearts, and 
will set up a temple of Love that will 
so radiate all around us, that all will 
see, and know, and feel that spirit of 
love which will live on and on, and con- 
tinue to make others happy who come 



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in contact with it. The God of Love is 
the only God to worship and our heart 
should be His abiding-place. 



CHAPTER XVIII 



god's laws 



God's Laws in the Material and Spir- 
it World no man, nor man-made Laws, 
can change. Men may put a man in a 
place where he will suffer, but he can 
suffer only a certain amount of pain, 
then he becomes unconscious, and suf- 
fers no more. While he is in that con- 
dition, no matter how much more they 
try to force upon him, he is dead to the 
sense of pain. 

People can suffer only a certain 
amount of pain, no matter what may 
have caused it, before they pass into 
that unconscious condition in which 



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they will suffer no more. Or they may 
pass out of life while in that condition, 
or they may recover and live for a num- 
ber of years, and never suffer any more 
such pain. 

God's laws do not recognize differ- 
ences of either race or color, bond-man 
or king, neither do they recognize 
man's laws. God's laws are immutable, 
and just, at all times, everywhere, both 
here and in the spirit world. The mo- 
ment we do right, or do wrong, we shall 
be happy or unhappy, not according to 
man's but God's laws, no matter what 
man may say or do. 

Man may execute, or destroy, the 
body. God pays no attention to that, 
for the spirit of man belongs to God, 
and that is what is judged. Hanging, 
shooting, electrocuting, may cause the 



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body to suffer for just a few seconds, 
and the body is dead ; then it is the spir- 
it that suffers. 

God's laws rule the spirit as well in, 
as out of the body. He gives us the 
spirit to use in our bodies, and tells us 
to use it. He does not tell us, how, 
when, or where, or what spirit to 
choose, but He has given us brains to 
use, and expects us to use them and to 
distinguish right from wrong. 

Do we ever stop to consider which is 
right, or which is wrong, or ask Him, 
or pray to Him, for advice, or to show 
us the light, or to lead us aright? No! 
We usually go right on, just as though 
we owned and controlled Heaven and 
Earth. Just wait! Some bright 
morning we may not awaken; our 
spirit may find itself in some strange 



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land, or we may not know just what is 
the matter with us. It will only be a 
matter of time, before we shall find 
out where we are, — no matter how 
much we may love our home, and how 
many dear loved ones we may have on 
Earth depending on us, and no matter 
who we are, or what we have done, or 
what our mission in life is. Then we 
shall come under God's laws. 

Do not try to excuse yourself when 
you get there! You know better than 
any one else what you have done or 
left undone. But would you say you 
did not do much? Oh, yes, of course 
you never did anything wrong! It 
was always the other fellow who did 
everything! Of course you are inno- 
cent! But listen; you have attempted 
to violate God's laws! Remember, 



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God's laws are immutable and there- 
fore they cannot be violated nor broken 
by man, and when we say man vio- 
lates God's laws, we mean man has at- 
tempted to violate His laws, by doing 
wrong, but has only injured himself, 
not the laws. God did not compel you 
to do wrong; you did it of your own 
free will, and now you are suffering for 
it, according to God's laws. Today is 
the day of judgment and of salvation, 
and you are receiving yours. 

God's law is like a giant oak-tree. 
No matter how the thunder may roll 
and the lightning flash, or the hurri- 
cane roar, the oak still stands. The 
oak is alongside of every one's path- 
way of life. You do not have to run up 
against the oak, but if you do, you do 
not hurt the tree; you only hurt your- 



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self. Just so with God's laws. You do 
not hurt God's laws by running against 
or attempting to violate them ; you only 
hurt yourself, and you are the only 
one that will suffer for it. You punish 
yourself; the law does not do it. That 
is why God's laws are just — the rich 
and the poor, the great and small, the 
king and peasant are alike when 
judged. 

We all punish ourselves when we at- 
tempt to violate God's laws, and we all 
come into this world according to God's 
laws; and while we live on the Earth, 
and when we pass out of this mortal 
body into the spirit world, we will still 
come under God's laws. 

If it were possible for us to show a 

record of the source of God's existence, 
or of our own, or of the origin of our 



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first parents, would that make you a 
happier or better person? Would it 
change the color of your skin, or when 
it came your time to die, would this 
knowledge save you? No! When we 
do what is right, we will reap the re- 
ward of happiness, and if we do wrong, 
we must pay the penalty, here. If we 
die before we have paid the penalty, 
we will suffer in the other life until it 
is paid; after which we will progress 
from that condition. 

All the people who have ever lived, or 
ever will live, in this world, cannot 
atone for our transgressions, nor suf- 
fer for us, when we defy God's, or Na- 
ture's laws. It may be that we have 
been forced to follow those who have 
power over us, which has caused us to 
suffer, and to do the things we are do- 



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ing or have done ; yet we must pay the 
penalty for what we do. 

If every person had his rights at all 
times, he would not, in order to please 
his master, be forced to do the things 
that cause him to suffer. But ignor- 
ance is no excuse, in law, and there is 
no excuse for ignorance if we will use 
our thinking faculties, w r hich were 
given to us for that purpose. 

Everything in this world is for us to 
use, and if we do not use it aright we 
shall suffer. Ignorance of God's, or 
Nature's, laws will not keep us from 
suffering when we do wrong, day or 
night, alone, in secret, or in company 
with other people. It does not make 
any difference who you are, or how, 
when, or where you attempt to violate 
God's law, you will have to pay the pen- 



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alty either here or in the next life. All 
persons are held responsible for the 
thoughts, acts, and deeds which they do 
while living, and are judged by them, 
here and hereafter. 

God's laws do not judge a man for 
just the good he may do on Sunday 
alone, but for the good he does every 
day in the week. 

God does not change his laws, neither 
can man change them. God's laws will 
never wear out, nor can they be broken 
or destroyed by man; and whenever 
man does wrong he will be corrected 
for his wrong doing, whether it be Sun- 
day or Monday, day or night, — it 
makes no difference to God, what man 
may say or do. God's ways are nat- 
ural ways, God does not change His 



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laws to please man; neither can they 
be broken or changed by man. 

God's laws rule all men, and it is true 
that some men can stand more pain 
and do more work than others, yet all 
come under His laws. If fire will burn 
and destroy one body, it will burn and 
destroy all bodies that come in contact 
with it, and if cold will freeze the flesh 
of one, it will freeze all flesh that is 
exposed to it. 

God's laws do not judge men accord- 
ing to the way some men think man 
should be judged, but it judges man ac- 
cording to the laws of God, and those 
laws no man or men can alter. Those 
laws recognize neither color nor race. 
You get your reward according to your 
thoughts, words, and deeds while living 
in the body, and no man can hinder 



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you from getting your just deserts, or 
can change God's laws. No matter 
what you may believe, you will be 
judged aright in the spirit world, ac- 
cording to God's laws. 



CHAPTER XIX 



MAN-MADE LAWS 



Men have made laws to govern man, 
and have taken life — destroyed his 
body and tried to cast his spirit into 
darkness. They have tried to build a 
wall around Heaven, and lock its gates, 
and said that only a few — whom they 
select — can get into Heaven. If a 
man, while living, has done wrong, and 
is angry and full of vengeance, and his 
spirit is cast into the spirit world in 
that condition, it will do great harm in 
the spirit world, which is all around 
this Earth-plane (where all people are 
living who have not had their spirit 



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eyes opened, so as to be able to see what 
spirits are around), by impressing and 
causing them to do the way such spir- 
its did before leaving their mortal 
bodies. 

Men make laws and send such spir- 
its into the spirit world full of wrath, 
when they will be in a position to do 
more harm to the innocent, and to those 
who do not understand the spiritual 
laws, than they would have been in had 
they continued to live on the Earth, 
suffered, and paid the penalty, before 
passing into the spirit world. 

If the man was guilty of the crime, 
and had been allowed to live his allot- 
ted time in the flesh, and had suffered 
and paid the penalty for the crime, 
then, when he did pass into spirit life 
he would not have been a revengeful 



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spirit, and would not then have tried 
to impress others to do wrong. 

This is an unnatural world. Man 
can do wrong, and if he is fined for it, 
and has money, the money atones for it, 
and he goes free. Man tries to make 
laws to rule Heaven the same as he 
does to rule Earth. Some rulers gather 
mighty armies together to destroy 
other nations and lives, in order that 
they themselves may rule those na- 
tions, and acquire their wealth, and 
conquer the world; then those rulers 
place themselves on an equality with 
God! 

Man-made laws are material, and all 
material laws are broken and violated. 
Man-made laws say that you are in- 
nocent, no matter what crime you may 
have committed, until you are proved 



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guilty. They destroy the body, but 
they cannot destroy the spirit or soul 
of man. 

All the books that ever have been, or 
ever will be, written, were written and 
will be written, by man. Some of those 
men claim that their books are the only 
true books that were ever written by 
God, and handed down to man, yet 
those books, and all things therein, have 
been written by man, for man, to please 
man. They have made their God, and 
have told men that all must believe in, 
and worship, Him, after they have 
branded Him such a cruel God. They 
have also told what God would do to 
those who did not believe in their teach- 
ings, and in their man-made God. In 
those books they say God is sitting on a 
throne in Heaven, where, according to 



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them, the spirits of all must go after 
death, to get their reward or punish- 
ment according to their man-made law, 
which, we say, is not according to God's 
law. They will really be judged accord- 
ing to the kind of life that they had 
lived while in the body. 



CHAPTER XX 

HOW TO SERVE GOD 

There is only one way that you can 
serve God, and you are serving Him 
that way every day of your life. You 
cannot help yourself, you are compelled 
to serve Him ; you could not, or would 
not, live, if you did not, or could not, 
serve Him. He is all there is of you. 
He has control of you, night and day; 
no matter what you are doing, you are 
serving Him. Whether you are doing 
right or wrong, you are serving Him. 

The only God you serve and are serv- 
ing is the God within you, and that God 
is Life. We cannot live without Him, 



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and as we serve Him we are either sad 
or happy, and He makes us feel that 
way for serving Him the way we do. 

The best way to serve God is to love 
that God who is within you with all 
your heart, soul, body, and strength, 
day and night, not in a selfish way, but 
always doing right for right's sake and 
doing all the good you can to others. 
When you do this you feel happy, for 
you please the God within you, the only 
God there is. 

There is a world within every one of 
us, and we are living in that world, and 
our God is also living in that world. No 
person can live in any other world but 
the one that is within him. Therefore, if 
we are obedient to that God, and listen 
to, and obey, Him and serve Him to the 
letter, that God is true, and will give us 



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justice according to our works. 

We should serve God in prayer and 
song in our daily walks of life, and He 
should be the only one to whom we 
should look up. If we will love Him as 
we should, we will also love other peo- 
ple, and other people will love us. The 
more love we receive, the more love we 
can impart to others, and the more we 
can serve God. 

We do not, nor can we, every time 
we pray, worship a God who is far off, 
for the God who is within us is the only 
God that can, or will, ever answer 
prayer. He knows our wants better 
than any one else. 

We should bless ourselves and every 
mouthful of food or drink we take, and 
be thankful for our health and strength 
in mind and body, and for the use of 



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them. We should serve Him, and be 
very thankful for all these and the 
many other blessings that are bestowed 
on us all through life. 

We should serve Him by doing all 
the good we can, both night and day, 
the year through, all over the world. 
We should serve Him on arising in the 
morning, at the breakfast, dinner and 
supper tables, and on retiring at night, 
in prayers like these or somewhat 
similar : 

Morning Prayer: "We do thank 
Thee, dear Spirit Friend, for the health 
and strength of the night that is past, 
for this beautiful hour, that our lives 
have been spared and that we are per- 
mitted to go forth into the world an- 
other day. Help us and give us 
strength, so that we may do our work 



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faithfully, and impress and help us to 
do the right, and to Thee will we give 
praise. Amen." 

Prayer at the breakfast table: "We 
thank Thee, dear Spirit Friend, for the 
many blessings we have enjoyed in the 
past, and the health and strength of 
this hour. We thank Thee for this food 
that is before us and the good that it 
will do us. Lead us aright. This we 
ask in the name of Truth. Amen." 

Prayer at the dinner table : "Angels 
of Love, we do thank You for all the 
many blessings we have enjoyed in the 
past and the health and strength of this 
hour. We thank You for this food before 
us. Watch over us all through our com- 
ing days. These favors we ask. Amen." 

Prayer at the supper table: "Dear 
loved Ones from the spirit world, we 



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thank You that we were able to do our 
day's work and that we are enjoying 
the best of health. We thank You for 
this food that is before us; may it do 
us all good, and give us strength. Lead, 
teach and direct us as You would have 
us go. These we ask in the name of 
loved ones. Amen." 

Prayer on retiring at night: "We do 
thank You, dear Spirit Friends, that 
we have been able to finish our day's 
work, and for the health and strength 
that we have enjoyed. Be with us and 
protect us this night and help us, so 
that we may arise to enjoy the bless- 
ings of health and strength and the use 
of the whole body while in this sphere 
of living. Fill us with Love and guide us 
all through this life. All this we ask in 
the name of the Spirit World, Amen," 



CHAPTER XXI 

WHAT WE ARE HERE AND IN THE 
SPIRIT WORLD 

Our body, at birth, is like a new 
house, which is all complete, ready to 
be occupied, and the door wide open. 
The first one to take possession of the 
body, or house, is the spirit of the per- 
son who is to have control of, and re- 
side in, it. At birth, the spirit of life 
takes possession of the body and is con- 
nected by a spiritual cord. When this 
cord is severed the spirit leaves the 
body ; then so-called death takes place. 

There may be many other spirits 
who temporarily take possession of, or 
impress, the body during this time. 



WHAT WE ARE 145 

either with or without the consent of 
the spirit of life, who is its ego or per- 
sonality. As the persons think, they 
attract that class of spirits around 
them, who impress them to do as they 
did or wanted to do while living; and 
we shall either do good to all we come 
in contact with, or we shall become a 
curse. 

If we are angry and see evil in 
everyone, and everything always goes 
wrong with us, and we are always look- 
ing for trouble, and wishing we and 
everyone else were dead, we should get 
rid of that condition by driving away 
that spirit of evil and welcoming a good 
spirit. You do not have to take on that 
evil condition, neither is it necessary to 
allow that evil spirit to control you and 
cause you to be unhappy. 



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You are the spirit of life which in- 
habits this house, or this body of clay, 
which these spirits, either good or evil, 
are impressing and using. Why will 
you allow this evil spirit to remain? 
Drive it out ! Call on the good spirits ! 
Think only good thoughts, and you will 
attract the good to you ; lead clean, pure 
lives, so that you will attract the very 
best of conditions and spirits to you. 
Pray more, and as you pray, ask for, 
and call on, the good spirits to come 
and help you lead a good life, and guide 
you aright, and manifest themselves to 
you. 

Remember, dear Reader, if you do 
not know what Heaven is, and if you 
do not live in it here, you will not know 
what it is in the spirit world. You may 
be there a long time before you will 



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have advanced or progressed out of 
that condition you were in, when you 
passed over there, or be able to find 
Heaven, or the sphere of good. For we 
are here what we shall be there, and 
there, what we are here. There is al- 
ways room for progression here in this 
life, and in the spirit world. No one 
is perfect, here or there. Though we 
may do good today, still we may and 
can do more tomorrow, and the more 
good we do, the more we shall progress 
here and in the spirit world. 

There are many blessings here and 
in the spirit world for us if we desire 
them. We are placed in this world as 
our own free moral agent. Even 
though we be bound to others in a spir- 
itual sense, still we are free to think. 

We were not consulted about our 



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coming here, but if we have grown old 
enough to think, and to be responsible 
for our acts, we should think for our- 
selves. 

Not only have we a material, but 
we have a spiritual body to care for 
while we are living in this world, and 
we shall be held responsible for the use 
or abuse of both of them. They are 
left in our care. We must give an ac- 
count of our material body and not al- 
low it to be wrongly used, or allow spir- 
its or anything else, to injure or de- 
stroy it, before its own spirit has a 
chance to accomplish its own work, 
which it should do while living here. 

People take their own lives just be- 
cause they have done wrong, or are 
sick, or tired of living; this will not 
keep them from suffering, or paying 



WHAT WE ARE 149 

the penalty of their wrong-doing when 
they pass into the spirit world. They 
will be held accountable for destroying 
their bodies and taking the life which 
did not belong to them but to the Giver 
of all life. 

God's laws are just, and your flesh 
will be compelled to bear only just so 
much pain; then you will become un- 
conscious and not suffer any more 
while in that condition. If a person 
had suffered all the pain that he could 
have borne before taking his own life, 
he would have been in such a condition 
that he could not have taken it. A per- 
son who takes his own life because he 
does not want to suffer, is a coward 
and a murderer. If he had suffered all 
he could bear while in the flesh, on pass- 



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ing into the spirit world he would have 
been happy. 

The only way that anyone will re- 
ceive a blessing here, or in the spirit 
world, is to do good at all times. There 
are many blessings here waiting for 
those who are doing good. After any- 
one has done all the good he can, he does 
not need to seek blessings, for they are 
his, and are waiting for him. He will 
get them in due time, and no one can 
take his reward from him. 



CHAPTER XXII 

OUR WORK HERE AND IN THE SPIRIT 
WORLD 

The body, in which the spirit lives 
and works, is material. Everything we 
see in this material world with our ma- 
terial eyes, is material. We work with 
our material hands to protect our ma- 
terial bodies, and when our material 
bodies go through the change called 
"death," our spirits will go on work- 
ing just the same in the spirit world; 
but, instead of working with material 
things, as they used to work while in 
our material bodies, they will now work 
with spiritual things, and will do or try 
to do for the Spiritual body, the same 



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as they did before for the material 
body, and will try to find some one, who 
is still living, whom they can impress 
to do the same as they did while living. 
We reap in spirit life what we sow in 
the material world. 

There is no such thing as dead life; 
life cannot die. Whenever there is life, 
there is motion ; and wherever there is 
motion, there is action. Wherever there 
is life, there is something produced. As 
soon as the spirit leaves the body, it 
keeps on working just the same in the 
spirit world as though it were living in 
the body. 

If, while living, we were doing good 
and that was all we knew, then, when 
we pass into the spirit world we take 
good with us, and we continue to do 
good by going to those who are living, 



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trying to help them, and impressing 
them to do good. Just so, if we did evil 
and that was all we knew while living ; 
then evil is all we can take into the 
spirit world, and that is what we will 
try to impress upon whomever we can, 
to do just what we did while we were 
living. 

Mark you, our spirit is alive, and it 
will have to do something, and that 
something will be just what it knew 
and did while it was in the body, 
whether good, bad, or indifferent. 

All of this comes under the same law, 
and if one comes under this law, all 
must. Whether we are free or not, while 
living, we do either good or evil. We 
are making our choice ; although it may 
be contrary to our will, still it is our 
choice. We lead our own lives. 



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It will make no difference after we 
pass out whether we could have lived 
any differently or not, because our life 
is spent; we have run our race. We 
cannot choose, then, the life we should 
have lived, for it is too late. 

Our spirit will, and must, go where 
it belongs; it cannot help it, for as it 
sowed, it will reap its own harvest. Do 
not ask what your harvest will be, for 
you certainly know what you are sow- 
ing while here. You will go into the 
spirit world whether it is against your 
will or not ; you must go there, and will 
work at the same work there that you 
did while living here. 

If a person who violates the laws of 
your city is arrested, and confesses his 
guilt and is sent for ten years to prison, 
— when he has served his term, the 



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gates of the prison are opened to him 
and he walks out a free man. That 
same judge is not waiting to sentence 
him again, neither is the one-time pris- 
oner compelled to commit another 
crime and be sent back to prison — there 
is no law that will so compel him. He 
walks out as free as any other man, 
and can lead a clean, pure life, and be 
a good citizen. 

Just so, after we have attempted to 
violate God's law, if we have not suf- 
fered for it here, although the world 
may not know anything about it, we 
will have to suffer for it there, and 
after paying the penalty for it in the 
spirit world, we will be free and our 
spirit will progress out of that condi- 
tion. 

When that spirit went into the spirit 



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world, it carried such a condition that 
when it came in contact with people on 
the earth-plane, it impressed them to 
do the same evil deeds that it did be- 
cause of that condition ; it was the only 
way that spirit could do, but it soon 
began to realize that it must pay the 
penalty, and that it did not have the 
same privileges as the other spirits. It 
could see that it had done wrong, and 
commenced to do right, and as it grad- 
ually progressed out of its evil condi- 
tion, the evil was changed to good, and 
the hatred to love; and now it would 
impress others to do the same. Love 
and truth will prevail, in spite of all 
obstacles. 

While in this life we are working 
with things made of material sub- 
stance; in spirit life we are working 



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with things made of spiritual sub- 
stance. Whatever we are working at 
or long to do while living here, just as 
soon as we have passed into the spirit 
world, we will try to find some spirit 
there; or some one living here, whom 
we can impress to work at or do the 
same thing we did, or longed to do, 
while we were living. 

What did we know while living? 
Only a certain kind of work, and in 
the spirit world we will only know just 
what we have learned or done while 
here. If we desire to progress here, 
we will progress there. If anyone is 
forced here to work at something he 
did not like to do, then, when his spirit 
leaves the body, it will go and do the 
work it longed to do while living. 
Therefore, our work in the spirit world 



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depends upon our work here, and if we 
have not attempted to violate God's 
laws while living, we can change our 
work there. If we have, we will be 
compelled to go and stay at certain 
work until we have paid for our wrong 
doing ; then we can progress. 

When a little babe passes into the 
spirit world, of course it has had no 
time or chance to learn here. We have 
told you in other chapters that spirits 
are working, helping other spirits that 
are in need of help in the spirit world, 
or trying to impress mortals to do just 
what they did while they were living. 
So, in the spirit world, the babes are 
nursed, watched over and cared for by 
spirit nurses. Then they grow up and 
are educated, the same as mortal chil- 
dren. All this time, the nurse, or some 



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other spirit, takes and shows them who 
their parents are, and when they are 
old enough and have finished their edu- 
cation, they go on and do the work they 
want to do; helping other spirits or 
mortals, and filling their mission of 
love. 

Remember, each spirit is doing some- 
thing in the spirit world. Life is al- 
ways active, always moving, always 
progressing, never standing still, 
neither on the earth plane nor in the 
spirit world. Every day you are a day 
older, and your body is changing, and 
you are younger today than you ever 
will be again. You cannot stop the 
progression of life; neither can you 
stop working. And as you are work- 
ing here for either good or evil, just so 
you will work in the spirit world. 



CHAPTER XXIII 

CALL ON THE SPIRIT AND ASK FOR 
WHAT YOU WANT 

Call on the Spirit, and ask for what 
you want; do not think or expect that 
it will come and do your work while you 
sit around with your arms folded. The 
spirit forces will not bother themselves 
enough about you to wait on you, or 
tell you your wants, or what you should 
have, or ask for. They have enough 
other things to attend to, helping other 
people who know what they want and 
are willing to ask for it ; it is your place 
to ask for yourself. You have a mouth 
and can speak; then why do you not 
ask and call for what you want? 



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If you, yourself, do not know what 
you want, pray tell me, how can you 
expect any spirit to tell you, or, what 
do you expect to get or have come to 
you? If you only knew what you want- 
ed, it might probably be right near you 
now, and if you called for it and asked 
for it, it might help you. It is an old 
saying, but it is true today, that "any- 
thing that is not worth asking for is 
not worth having." 

There are many blessings waiting in 
store for people if they live aright and 
ask for them in the right way. There 
is no one to come to you to ask what 
you want; neither is there any law to 
force you to ask ; that is your privilege, 
as we have told you in other chapters. 

It is not the faith nor belief you may 
have, which will make you a happier 



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or better person, but the good works 
you do. Then why not call and ask for 
the very best that will make you feel 
happier and better? You should call 
on the loved ones in spirit, who are 
ever ready to help you through your 
trials, the same as they did when liv- 
ing in their bodies. 

Our life here and in the hereafter 
depends only upon ourselves. We are 
placed in this world as our own free 
moral agent, and to choose what we 
will. There is everything that is good 
in this world for us, and we have the 
right to ask for, or choose, it. If we 
do not ask, how can we expect to re- 
ceive? 

The world we are in is a great store- 
house of knowledge; we are the keep- 
ers of the same, and we must be care- 



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ful that we ask for, and take, some- 
thing good, that we can use, for it will 
be charged to us in the hereafter, and 
we must give an accounting of it; for 
more precious than anything money 
can buy is the love, joy and happiness 
that we create by the use of it, which 
will be in the hereafter awaiting us. 

We are the only ones that can lead 
our own lives. It is not what we be- 
lieve that will make us, but that which 
we do, and accomplish. When we do 
right, we are happy; when we do 
wrong, we are sad. Our acts make 
us feel happy, or sad, according to 
their fruits, and our deeds are 
they which will judge us. So it 
will be seen plainly, that we are the 
makers of our own happiness and des- 
tinies. If I speak a word of good cheer 



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to some sorrowing one, and thus lighten 
his burden, I am laying up joy for my- 
self hereafter. I tell him how beauti- 
ful this world is, and what a grand 
place it is to live in. If we would only 
seek the good in everything, we would 
be happy ; if we had not been thinking 
good thoughts, we could not have given 
this word of cheer to him, thus making 
both happier, by doing good. 

We can impart only the thought that 
is within us, and the only way that we 
will, or can, ever get any good thoughts 
within us, is to seek them. By think- 
ing the best of thoughts, we attract, 
and make the best condition for, the 
best of spirits to come in and take con- 
trol of our bodies. Mark you, there is 
some kind of spirit within you all the 
time; you do not have to ask anyone 



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what kind of spirit that is. You know 
yourself better than anyone else does. 
You know just how you feel when you 
have done wrong or allowed yourself 
to take on some one else's condition, 
who used to feel sad ; and if you will al- 
low yourself to take on a condition that 
causes you to be sad, that is your weak- 
ness; you are doing wrong, when you 
could just as well feel happy. You think 
as you feel, and feel as you think; you 
attract to you, and as you attract, that 
spirit takes possession of you and that 
is just what you are. You can either 
laugh or sing, or cry, it is for you to 
choose ; they are all around, you. Then, 
why not call on the good spirits and ask 
for what you want? 

How glorious this beautiful world is, 
after all? We can look about us with 



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our natural eyes, and see what Mother 
Earth is producing, and the wonderful 
work of nature. Then, without mov- 
ing out of our way, we can see, with 
our spiritual eyes — if we have them 
open — the dear ones who passed into 
the spirit world, who are all around us ; 
and yet, you say this world is not 
worth living in! 

Oh, if you could only remove the 
scales of ignorance from your material 
eyes, and remove that thin veil in front 
of your spiritual eyes, that hinders you 
from seeing and knowing all about this 
beautiful world that you are living in, 
you would not have to acquire faith or 
belief in anything, but you would see 
and know, and be able to talk to those 
in spirit-life, and get all the informa- 
tion that you want for yourself. You 



CALL ON THE SPIRITS 167 

would know then, that your life de- 
pends upon what you do, that you are 
responsible for it; ignorance or no ig- 
norance, or whatever your plea may be, 
you will get your, reward, good or ill, 
according to your works whils living 
in the material body, whether you have 
used your spirit eyes or not. They have 
been given to you to use, but no one can 
compel you to use them ; that is for you 
to choose. You can be either happy or 
sad; it is your choice. You are either 
one or the other ; it is a one-sided ques- 
tion. If you do not use your spirit 
right, and are not happy here in this 
life, you will not be happy in the next. 
By calling on the good spirits and ask- 
ing for what you want, they will teach 
you the way. 



CHAPTER XXIV 

WHO ANSWERS PRAYER 

We answer our own prayer, for when 
we pray for good we attract good to us. 
Good takes control of us, and we are 
good through and through. 

When you are hungry you pray for 
something to eat. You do not sit down 
and wait for an angel to bring you the 
food, but you will seek it; and when 
you find it, you will not pray for some 
one to put it in your mouth but you will 
do that yourself. 

Who sought, found, and ate the food? 
You did ! Who answered your prayer? 
You did! We are the only ones that 



WHO ANSWERS PRAYER? 169 

can answer our prayers; we are the 
only ones that can eat, live or die for 
ourselves. 

Every person who wants to do right 
should keep it in his mind ; that should 
be his prayer, day and night; that 
should be the one thought in his mind 
and the one word on his lips. "I want 
to do right; help me, dear Spirit, I pray 
Thee." During the day, and when you 
retire at night, if your prayer is: "I 
want to do right," so long as you keep 
that thought in your mind, there is no 
room for evil, for right and good have 
control of you. 

One's life here should be a life of 
prayer, because our life and happiness, 
here and in the spirit world, depend on 
it. A life of prayer is the only kind of 
life worth living. It is true, we can 



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pray to do right one minute and can do 
wrong the next, but if we keep the 
thought of "right" on our minds con- 
tinually, we cannot do wrong, for right 
will be with us as long as we call for it. 

If we would pray and bless every- 
thing, and do right, instead of being 
cross and complaining about this or 
that — having poor health or experienc- 
ing financial losses — all the time look- 
ing on the dark side of life and wishing 
we and everybody else were dead, — if, 
as we have said, we would pray for 
light and help, we would receive them. 
We should always bless the good, and 
pray, and be thankful that our lot is no 
worse than it is. 

Bless everything you eat, and keep 
your mind on it; and do not sit down 
to the table to eat when you are angry, 



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for you will not take time to properly 
masticate your food. You will eat too 
fast. Then after awhile you will have 
trouble with your stomach and wonder 
what is the matter with you ; that is not 
your stomach's fault, but yours, for 
abusing it. Pray for, and seek, only 
the good that is in everything; and the 
spirit forces will help and bless you. 
The spirit forces desire that you pray 
for their help, not only on Sunday, but 
on every day in the week. 



CHAPTER XXV 

WHAT DO SPIRITS KNOW? 

There is no one living who knows all 
that is going on in his own city. He 
may read the newspapers, or receive 
letters and telegrams, still he does not 
know it all, for people are working, and 
they have no time to go from house to 
house to find out what others are do- 
ing. It is true, they will talk with those 
with whom they are working, and if 
these feel like it, they may tell about 
themselves. Then they know only just 
what they, and those they are working 
with, are doing. It is just so with the 
spirits in the spirit world ; everyone has 



WHAT DO SPIRITS KNOW? 173 

his work to do, and has no time to go 
around and see what is going on. 

As we have told you in other chap- 
ters, there are messengers in the spirit 
world, and when a messenger is wanted 
to take a message from one part of that 
world to another, one of these takes the 
message and delivers it. That is the 
way spirits get the news they give to 
mortals, unless it is something right in 
and around where the spirits are work- 
ing, then they can receive the message 
themselves, without sending a messen- 
ger. Therefore, all that spirits know is 
what they themselves see, or receive 
from the other spirits that are around 
them. 

The spirit that gives the message 
may be truthful, but it may not know 
anything about the spirit from whom it 



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receives it. It takes for granted that 
the other spirit is telling the truth ; or 
it may be that the spirit messenger was 
misinformed, that the message it re- 
ceived and delivered was not true. But 
other spirits should not be blamed ; any 
more than you should be blamed for re- 
peating something you might have 
heard and told as truth, which, when 
investigated, was proven false. 

Every time a spirit comes to you 
with a message, or tries to manifest to 
you, do not drive the spirit away, but 
try to prove its message and see wheth- 
er it is true or not. If it is not true do 
not bother with that spirit, nor believe 
it, until you have proven that the mes- 
sage or manifestation is true ; then wel- 
come it. 

You cannot tell by the looks of a 



WHAT DO SPIRITS KNOW? 175 

spirit whether he is stating the truth or 
not, until you have received, tried, and 
proven the truth of his message. When 
you receive a telegram from any part 
of the country, you do not ask or care 
who the messenger is, or what his past 
life has been, or what he looks like, or 
whether he can tell the truth or not, so 
long as he brings the message; or, if 
you are in need, you do not care who the 
person is, or how he looks, that helps 
you, provided you receive the help ; that 
is all you ask. Therefore, there is no 
one living here, nor in the spirit world, 
who knows all ; neither is there any one 
perfect here, or there. 



CHAPTER XXVI 

CLOTHING AND CHARACTERISTICS 
OF SPIRITS 

It makes no difference whether you 
are standing upright, or are ill in bed, 
or unconscious, or with all your rela- 
tives and friends around you, either 
day or night, the moment so-called 
Death takes place, your spirit will leave 
its "earthly house, ,, which is your body, 
at which time it will be clothed with its 
spiritual clothing, which you have al- 
ways carried with you. The appear- 
ance of your spiritual clothing will de- 
pend very much upon the kind of life 
you have lived; whether it was clean, 
pure, beautiful and full of good deeds, 



CLOTHING AND CHARACTERISTICS 177. 

or was clouded by evil deeds and 
thoughts. Also, the appearance of it 
will be marked by the color and style of 
clothing you formerly wore, and the 
colors that were your favorites, as these 
will be the means your spirit will use to 
show your individuality, and by which 
you may be recognized by your earthly 
friends. 

After your spirit has assumed the 
clothing which you have provided for 
it while you were living, although you 
may see other spirits with brighter and 
more beautiful raiment than yours, you 
cannot change the appearance of yours, 
for that is the result of your past life, 
and there is no one who can exchange 
with you, for all must wear the raiment 
which they have provided for them- 
selves, 



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When you go into the spirit world, 
you will go to your own home, which 
you have builded by your thoughts, acts 
and deeds, while living in your earthly 
house or body. Your spirit also will 
seek the companionship of those who 
thought, and did, the same as you, 
either good or evil, and will remain in 
that condition until it has progressed 
to a higher one. If your spirit, while 
in that condition, is able to communi- 
cate with mortals, it will try to impress 
them to do the same deeds as you did 
while living. These conditions are nat- 
ural and cannot be broken, as they are 
God's lav/; namely: "That as a man 
sows, so must he reap." 

If, while in earth-life, a person has 
done that which was right, doing unto 
others as he would that they should do 



CLOTHING AND CHARACTERISTICS 179 

unto him, and has done all the good he 
knew how to do, to his fellow-creatures, 
both temporally and spiritually, that is 
all that God requires of any one, and 
he has fulfilled his life's mission. Then, 
when he passes into the spirit world, he 
will be free to go wherever he wishes, 
and will not be compelled to remain in 
the company of any certain class of 
spirits ; nor with those who had led un- 
clean lives, who will have to stay in a 
certain place, under certain conditions, 
until they have progressed beyond their 
evil deeds, and are fit to mingle with 
those of higher conditions, when they 
too, will be free to go where they will. 
If a person, while living, did evil deeds, 
his spirit will seek those in the earth- 
life who do such deeds, and will seek 
to impress, and be a guide to, such per- 



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sons, thus satisfying the spirit's evil 
desires. 

Like attracts like, and as a man 
thinks, so is he, and that is the kind of 
spirits he attracts to himself, and that 
is what his life will be. If a person, 
while in the flesh, did only evil deeds, it 
would not be natural for him, when he 
became a spirit, to desire the company 
of those mortals who were living clean, 
pure lives; rather will he desire to be 
with those who are evil, that he may 
impress, and use, them, and cause them 
to do as he did or desired to do while 
living. 

Usually the spirits of those who in 
their earth-life were good, noble, and 
pure, do not seek to impress mortals 
who, unlike themselves, are given to 
deeds of darkness, but they may mani- 



CLOTHING AND CHARACTERISTICS 181 

f est to such, if they wish, and feel that 
it is their duty to do so, and desire to 
lift such mortals from the evil of their 
ways. It is much easier for those 
higher spirits to manifest themselves 
to mortals who are living unclean, evil 
lives, than it is for those spirits of evil- 
doers to manifest to mortals of clean, 
pure lives ; because the pure, good and 
noble spirits have learned, while living, 
to overcome temptation and have pro- 
gressed spiritually ; whereas the evil or 
ignorant spirits, while on earth, cared 
nothing for the things of the spirit life, 
or if they did know about them, wil- 
fully sinned. So when they have taken 
their places in the spirit world, they 
must suffer, and pay the penalty of 
their wrong-doing. Thus they are more 



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easily attracted to those like themselves 
in the earth-life. 

Therefore, it can easily be seen, that 
if mortals would only cultivate and use 
their spirit-eyes, they could see these 
impure spirits who are all around 
them, and who, when these mortals are 
thinking or doing evil deeds, are drawn 
to them and further impress them to 
continue in evil. If they would use their 
spirit-eyes they could see the dark, evil 
appearance of these spirits and thus 
avoid, and protect themselves from, 
ihem, through life. 



CHAPTER XXVII 

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPIRIT AND 
THOUGHT 

A person may be walking along the 
street or sitting in his home when sud- 
denly the thought of some one who is 
living may impress itself upon his mind 
so that he seems to perceive his pres- 
ence. Possibly he may not have seen 
or heard from that individual for a 
long time, yet as he keeps on walking, 
or whatever else he may be doing, soon 
he will come face to face with him, or 
the person may call to see him unexpec- 
tedly at his home. 

People think ; they cannot help them- 
selves ; but they are not obliged to take 



184 SOUL SCIENCE 

on any particular thought. If they 
take on some one else's thought or con- 
dition they can throw that off. They 
send out their thought wherever they 
go, and whoever may come in touch 
with that thought, it will either picture 
itself on the person's mind, so that he 
will see the other party as though he 
were standing in front of him, or it will 
impress that person in some way or 
other, which may cause him to do or say 
things he would not have said or done 
had he not come in line or in contact 
with that thought. 

When you make up your mind to go 
to a place, you think about that place, 
and, as you think, you send out a 
thought. The thought goes ahead of 
you, — directly to the place to which you 
had been thinking of going. It does not 



SPIRIT AND THOUGHT 185 

jump over this or that house, down this 
or that alley or street, but it will go 
directly to the place to which you were 
thinking of going; and if any one you 
know should happen to be on the street 
in direct line with your thought, it 
would picture itself so on his mind that 
he would see you and think about you. 

So, inasmuch as thoughts are things, 
whenever you send out a thought you 
send out that part of yourself which 
has force, power and strength, and can 
be seen by the sensitive; if not, people 
could not or would not see and think 
about one another the way they do be- 
fore they meet them face to face with- 
out an appointment. 

When a Doctor has a very sick pa- 
tient, he will not allow any one to come 
into the sick room to talk to or see the 



186 SOUL SCIENCE 

patient. Why? Because it would make 
the patient weaker, as it takes away so 
much of his strength to talk. There- 
fore, whenever any one speaks, he is 
sending out and giving away his 
strength, which is part of himself. 

Around every person are thoughts of 
the living and the dead, since every per- 
son is thinking about some one else. 
Every person, while living, thinks and 
sends forth thoughts. These thoughts 
live on after the death of the person, 
remain here, and, becoming manifest to 
the sensitive, are often seen around 
people who sometimes describe them as 
"spirits." The more a person thinks 
about you, the more thoughts he is 
sending out; and also the more 
thoughts of different people that are 
around you, and the stronger the con- 



SPIRIT AND THOUGHT 187 

ditions, the easier it is for those who 
are sensitive, to take on, or see and de- 
scribe the conditions, or what they call 
"spirits" around you, though in reality, 
they do not see a "spirit." What they 
do see is the thoughts, which are a part 
of the living, and thus take on the ap- 
pearance and condition of the living, 
and of those who were thinking such 
thoughts, had sent them forth, and, as 
the sensitive see it, they "sense" and 
see something which they call "spirit." 
Instead of the "spirit" it is the thought 
pictured before them that they see. 

Thoughts are things, and things can 
be seen. So if one thought will picture 
itself so strongly on one's mind that 
when he walks along the street with- 
out a thought of any certain person, 
that person's thought is pictured on his 



188 SOUL SCIENCE 

mind as plainly as though he were in 
front of him, how much easier must it 
be to see the thoughts — or pictures — 
around several persons when in their 
company ! 

By the sensitive not understanding 
the spiritual laws, and because of their 
not having their spirit eyes opened, or 
if their spiritual eyes were open, even 
then, it is very difficult to tell the differ- 
ence between the spirit of one who did 
not know anything about the spiritual 
laws before he passed out of life (as 
we have explained in other chapters) 
and the thoughts which take shape and 
form and can be seen around people by 
a sensitive person. Because the out- 
lines or forms of such spirits are too 
weak to be revealed plainly, it is very 
difficult to distinguish the difference 



SPIRIT AND THOUGHT 189 

between the thoughts of people which 
are pictured on our minds and the spir- 
its that we see around people. This is 
one reason why we have written the 
chapter, "Never Describe or Give 
Spirit Messages in Public." 



CHAPTER XXVIII 

NEVER DESCRIBE OR GIVE A SPIRIT MES- 
SAGE IN PUBLIC 

Never describe, or give a spirit mes- 
sage, or try to give out what you see 
around people spiritually, in a public 
meeting ; because you will not be under- 
stood, and there will be those present 
who will hear you, but will not under- 
stand how, or why, you are able to see 
and describe what you see around them, 
when they themselves cannot do so. 
Why ? Because they have not had these 
spiritual laws explained to them. Re- 
member, it is for you to teach the people 
how to live aright, and to read, study 
and practice "Soul Science, the Proof of 



MESSAGES IN PUBLIC 191 

Life after Death." Then they will 
themselves be able to see and receive 
the proof of life after death. 

The main object of "Soul Science, the 
Proof of Life after Death" is to teach 
the people how to open their spirit 
eyes, which God has given them to use, 
so that they can see the spirits and will 
know how to attract the good spirits 
to and around them; which will make 
them happier here, and in the spirit 
world. The giving out, to any one, 
of what you see, or the spirit message 
you receive from some spirit in the 
spirit world, will never teach him how 
to live aright and be a better person, or 
how to open his spirit eyes to see and 
know what spirits are around him. 

It is true you may receive a spirit 
message from a loved one in the spirit 



192 SOUL SCIENCE 

world, which may make you feel very 
happy for the time being. But, at the 
same time, if that same person, who de- 
livered to you the message, were to ex- 
plain to you how you can open your 
spirit eyes and see for yourself, and 
assure you that you can and would be 
able to see spirits and receive messages 
from them at any or all times, would 
you not be a happier person? When 
your spirit eyes are open, such opening 
will prove the continuity of life, thus 
making you happier and better here, 
and in the spirit world. 

You will remember that we have 
told you in other chapters that our life 
and happiness in the spirit world do 
not depend upon what some one else 
may say or do, nor on what we believe, 
but upon what we ourselves do. There- 



MESSAGES IN PUBLIC 193 

fore all the messages we may receive in 
this world will never teach us how to be 
happy, nor make us any happier here, 
or in the spirit world. 

As we can only think one thought, 
and speak one word, at a time, instead 
of giving a message or describing what 
we see around people at the meetings, 
the time would be better spent in tell- 
ing and explaining to them how they 
can see the same as we can if they un- 
derstand the spiritual laws. Life is so 
short, and time so precious, we should 
direct all our thoughts and words 
where they will do the most good. So 
by telling and explaining to them how 
to live and how to think and do right, 
and how to open their spirit eyes to see 
for themselves, you teach them how 
they may live happier lives, 



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Suppose you were in a meeting of a 
thousand persons, and you were to give 
one of those persons a spirit message 
which that person would recognize at 
once ; no doubt that individual would be 
pleased, but none of the other nine hun- 
dred and ninety nine persons present 
would know whether the message given 
was true or false, neither would they 
understand the message. By giving 
one person the message, you have made 
that one person happy, whereas had you 
spent that same amount of time ex- 
plaining to the entire thousand persons 
how they could all see spirits with their 
spirit eyes, if they had them opened, 
you would then have made the one thou- 
sand persons happy all through life in- 
stead of one person pleased for a short 
while. 



MESSAGES IN PUBLIC 195 

No one can use your spirit eyes but 
you. They are given for your use ex- 
clusively, and if you do not use them 
you cannot, or will not, be happy here 
or in the spirit world. Because you 
do not use these eyes that are given to 
you to use every day of your life in your 
business, your home, and your family 
circle, either day or night, you are rob- 
bing yourself. 

Still you must carry those eyes 
around with you, whether you use them 
or not. They are yours, and belong to 
you, and if you do not use them you are 
not protecting your spiritual body, and 
will have to pay the penalty for not 
having accomplished your life's mis- 
sion, which is, to use that which you 
have, and to help to do all the good you 
can to those who need your assistance. 



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The only way that you can accomplish 
this, your work of service to mankind, 
is to use your spirit eyes. Then you 
will be able to see what spirits are 
{•round you, and around those whom 
jju meet; then you will be so happy 
that you will be unable to keep it to 
yourself, and will tell it to the world, 
thus making others happy. 

You will also see and know where 
the spirit world is, and who and where 
God is; you will do more and better 
Jeeds, will love, and be loved by, all, 
and will realize how precious and sweet 
life is to you, and should be to all. 



CHAPTER XXIX 

HOW TO HOLD CLASSES AND CALL ON 
AND COMMUNICATE WITH SPIRITS 

Classes should be held in every home 
for the development of the spiritual 
sight, and that would make the home a 
haven of rest. After "Soul Science, the 
Proof of Life after Death" has been 
thoroughly read, explained and under- 
stood in the home, as to how the spirits 
are around people, how we can, and 
why every person should be able to, see 
spirits with the spirit eyes, then class- 
es should be formed; after which they 
will be ready and able to understand 
whatever the spirit is trying to mani- 
fest to them. 



198 SOUL SCIENCE 

When a person who has met with an 
accident and has lost a limb, passes into 
spirit life, he will have the use of the 
limb in the spirit world that he lost in 
earth life, but when he appears to his 
mortal friends in spirit he will appear 
just as he did when he last saw them, 
that is, without the limb. 

Just so when a babe passes out of this 
life, it grows to the same height, 
weight, color of hair, and complexion 
it would have had, had it lived and 
grown to maturity on the earth plane, 
but when it appears to its mother, years 
afterward, it will appear as a babe, so 
that its mother can, and will, recognize 
it as she last saw it, a babe. If it were 
to appear as an adult, the mother could 
not, and would not, recognize her own 
child. 



HOW TO HOLD CLASSES 199 

The spirits cannot, or will not, mani- 
fest in the home, unless you make the 
conditions right for them ; therefore the 
manifestation depends upon your- 
selves, not the spirits. The spirits can- 
not, or will not, manifest to you or any- 
one else under adverse conditions. Re- 
member, spirits do not have to mani- 
fest to you just because you want them 
to do so, or think they should. 

When you sit in the class to develop, 
you should dress neatly, and not have 
any strong odor of tobacco or anything 
else on your clothing. You would not 
want anyone to visit you in that way, 
neither do the spirits want, or expect, 
you to call on them that way, for they 
are very sensitive, and are unable to 
manifest to you under such conditions. 
The best is none too good for you, or the 



200 SOUL SCIENCE 

spirits, and by your dressing neatly, 
and by your thinking good thoughts, 
and taking the very best thoughts with 
you, you are helping the spirits to man- 
ifest to you and to others in the class. 

Do not go to the class, or sit in the 
class, just to see what kind of spirit 
message you will receive, or how the 
spirits will manifest there. If that is 
all you go for, stay at home; for you 
will take with you, and establish, such 
a condition that the others will not be 
able to get good results. 

If there are good conditions in the 
class, each person should be able to see 
and communicate with spirits in the 
spirit world, not only in the class room, 
but at all times, by spiritual under- 
standing, if he will take time to read 
and understand this book, "Soul Sci- 



HOW TO HOLD CLASSES 201 

ence, the Proof of Life after Death." 
Therefore, you do not have to go to an- 
other person to receive communications 
from your loved ones, for they are all 
around you, as explained in other chap- 
ters, doing all they can to manifest to 
you. If you do not or cannot, receive a 
communication from your loved ones, 
it is because you are ignorant of the 
spiritual laws. You have spiritual eyes, 
and if you do not use them, you 
will suffer for it. God has given those 
eyes to you for your use, and unless you 
use them you are robbing your spirit, 
hindering its progress, and preventing 
the fulfillment of its mission here. 

Make up your mind in advance as to 
the time when you want to call on the 
spirit you wish to see or communicate 
with; and keep thinking about that 



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spirit that you desire to manifest to 
you ; that will help to attract that spirit 
to you, and will help to open your spirit 
eyes, that you may have a better spirit- 
ual understanding. 

After "Soul Science, the Proof of 
Life after Death" has been thoroughly 
read and understood, as already stated, 
classes should be held in homes, once a 
week, calling on the "Good Spirits" to 
come and help you all to see spiritual- 
ly. While you are all sitting in the 
class, do not talk about the work of 
every day, but keep your mind on the 
"Good Spirits." You should all soon 
begin to see, hear, "sense," or receive, 
some impression, while sitting in the 
class, which should prove to you all, 
that the spirits are around, trying to 



HOW TO HOLD CLASSES 203 

impress you and communicate with 
you. 

As soon as you commence to sit in the 
class, you should all sing and pray, as 
directed in Chapter XXXIX of "Soul 
Science," then sit quietly, and if any- 
one speaks, he should speak only about 
spirits or what he is receiving from the 
spirit forces. If the spirits were not 
there, you could not have thought or 
talked about them. Every time you 
think about a spirit, the spirit must be 
there, or you could not have thought or 
talked about it. Everything you talk 
or think about must exist; if not, you 
could not talk about it. 

Whenever you think about a spirit, 
speak to that spirit as though you were 
speaking to a friend, and you will get 
some impression in response to your 



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question. That is the way some spir- 
its will answer you; others may want 
you to write, so they will impress you 
to get a pencil and paper, and will con- 
trol your hand so that you will write 
whatever they impress you to do. Try 
sitting that way several times, and see 
if it is not what they want you to do. If 
it is, continue to follow that impression. 
Before anyone sits in a class, he 
should read this book "Soul Science, the 
Proof of Life after Death," through 
and through, and understand it thor- 
oughly, so that he will understand and 
know just how spirits can and do man- 
ifest to us every day, and why each 
person should develop and use his spir- 
itual eyes so as to see how to protect the 
spiritual body, as the Creator intended 
he should do. Had it not been so in- 



HOW TO HOLD CLASSES 205 

tended, they never would have been 
given to him. 

God never makes a mistake. He 
knows that spirits are everywhere, and 
He also knows what will happen to 
those who do not use their spiritual 
eyes. Every person should have his 
spiritual eyes open, so as to be able to 
see spirits, the same as he has his mate- 
rial eyes open to see material things. 

Developing means understanding; if 
you understand, you can see and can 
develop. Remember, the Truth is found 
in proving whether things be right or 
wrong. 



CHAPTER XXX 

SPEAK A WORD OF CHEER 

When you go to call on a friend, you 
should go with the intention of cheer- 
ing him up, or helping him in any and 
every way you can, but instead of help- 
ing him some people often make him 
feel worse, by having called on him. 

When you call on the sick, do not tell 
them they look so ill; you will only 
make them feel worse. If they do not 
know they are sick, do not tell them 
they look so ill, for you may do them 
more harm than good. It may be they 
have been sick for a long time and have 
given up hope of getting well; your 



SPEAK A WORD OF CHEER 207 

telling them that they are looking poor- 
ly, might be the cause of their abandon- 
ing hope, and passing out. 

On the other hand, had you told them 
that they were going to get well, or 
had you given them a cheerful word, 
they might have been encouraged and 
made a greater effort to live, and lived 
on for a number of years more ; just by 
a word of cheer. If you cannot do that, 
do not go near them, as you will only 
make them worse, when they do not ask, 
or have not asked, you to tell them how 
they feel, or how they look. Should 
you not have seen them for months, you 
would be in no position to tell them 
anything anyway. 

When you talk to them, speak of 
some subject that will please them; but 
do not continue the talk until the sick 



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person is all worn out or getting nerv- 
ous. Do not stay too long at a time, but 
go often and then make your visit 
pleasant. After you have left the sick 
person, he will think for days to come 
of everything you have said to him, and 
it may run through his mind several 
times a day. The more he thinks about 
it, the deeper the impression will be, 
until he believes every word of it, 
whether it is true or not. 

When people are ill and in a relaxed 
condition, they will believe what is told 
them at that time, though they would 
not pay any attention to it if they were 
well ; in fact you will tell them things 
then that you would not have talked 
about if they were well. 

Do all the good you can to help them, 
speak a word of cheer, and if they pass 



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out of life, you will be glad that you 
called on them when they were in need, 
and did all you could do ; you can glad- 
den their hearts, and they will die hap- 
pier by knowing that their neighbors 
thought something of them, and that 
all was done that could be done to help 
them and make them feel happy as 
their end drew near. 



CHAPTER XXXI 

NOW IS THE TIME TO DO GOOD 

Now is the time to give to the sick 
and needy. Do not wait until they have 
passed into the spirit world to go and 
place flowers on their graves. If you 
have any smiles or roses to give to 
friends, give them while they are liv- 
ing, so they will appreciate them, and 
do not wait until they are dead to place 
them on the cold, cold grave, for the 
roses and smiles will then do them no 
good. What they need is encourage- 
ment and cheer, while here. 

Now is the time to give, for today is 
the day of salvation. When persons are 



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hungry and starving, feed them now, 
when the food is what they want. It 
will save their lives ; they cannot eat it 
after they are dead. It would never 
do them any good then, nor make them 
feel any happier in the spirit world. If 
you want to be happy, or if you want to 
give and help to carry out your mission 
here in this life, give now, for you may 
never have another opportunity to help 
others, like to now. 

Your waiting until you think you 
will find some one else more worthy of 
help will be no excuse. Remember, the 
more you do here in this life the hap- 
pier you will be in spirit life. There is 
no excuse for shirking your duty, and 
excuses cannot make you happy in spir- 
it life. It is not what you think, or be- 
lieve, that will make you happy there, 



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but it is what good you do while living 
here; so give some of your love and 
g,)od deeds here, and you will be happy 
there. Not only will persons be hap- 
pier in spirit life, but when they do 
good here they know they have done the 
right; consequently they are happier 
here. No matter what others may say 
or do, they have their reward for doing 
good unto others. 

Every person we meet is our brother 
or sister, and it is our duty to do good 
and give a helping hand to all who are 
in need, to help them over the rough 
and painful places in this life. There 
are many spirits in the spirit realm 
who would be much happier than they 
are if they had only obeyed their good 
impulses and given more assistance to 
others, while on the earth-plane. Do 



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not wait or defer your good deeds to a 
future date, for if you do not make 
others happy or help to lighten their 
burdens here, you will not find happi- 
ness awaiting you in the spirit realm. 
Do all the good you can to your fellow- 
man here, and you will be happier in 
fulfilling your mission in this life and 
be blessed in the spirit world. 



CHAPTER XXXII 

WHY "SOUL SCIENCE, THE PROOF OF 

LIFE AFTER DEATH" gHOULD BE 

IN EVERY HOME 

Why should "Soul Science, the Proof 
of Life after Death," be read in every 
home? Because it teaches how to open 
the spirit eyes, to see spiritually the 
different spirits that are around mor- 
tals, so that those who live according to 
its teachings will know, in advance, 
just where they will go, whom they will 
meet, and what they will do, when they 
pass into the other life. Without this 
knowledge, when they pass into spirit 
life, their spirits will hover for some 
time around the graves that hold their 



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bodies, unless some spirit comes and 
tells them they are in the spirit world, 
or shows them how to progress in the 
spirit world. 

As we have told you in other chap- 
ters, if you do not know anything here, 
you will not know anything in the spir- 
it world. Therefore, if you are ignor- 
ant while living here in your body, in 
regard to seeing spirits, and in regard 
to the spiritual laws of the spirit world, 
you will have to learn those spiritual 
laws there, before you will ever be able 
to progress, and see and know whom 
and where you are, in order to be able 
to send a message or manifest your- 
self to some loved one who is still liv- 
ing. 

If persons can see spiritually, and 
would go to the graveyard, they would 



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be able to see spirits wandering about, 
waiting for an angel to come and take 
them to Heaven, as they were taught 
they would be when they should die. 
Since death, they have not been able to 
find an angel waiting to show them the 
way, and oh, how sad and disappointed 
they seem to be! When we talk to 
them, they do not seem to understand, 
and yet they realize something is 
wrong, and are amazed at the condition 
in which they find themselves. They 
see other spirits going about, each do- 
ing his work. Some are happy, others 
sad, according to the life they lived 
while in their bodies. 

After your loved ones have passed 
into the spirit world, do not wear crape, 
or mourning, or weep over their graves, 
for that only holds their bodies; nor 



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wish they were living, for you are only 
hindering their progress in the spirit 
world, and keeping them from being 
happy and from doing their work 
there. We assure you that you do not 
want to go and help anybody that is 
sad and crying all the time ; you do not 
even want to be near them, because it 
makes you feel sad just as they do. 

Just so with your loved ones in the 
spirit world. They do not want you to 
mourn, and feel sad and weep for them, 
because they have passed into the spirit 
world. They are free from pain and are 
happier than you are here. They do 
not care to be near or around you, nor 
any one else who is sad or crying, for 
they suffered enough while living, and 
now want to rest and be happy, and 
want you to think good thoughts, lead 



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good lives and be happy, so that their 
spirits can come in to help you, and try 
to repay you for the good you did in 
helping them, while they were living 
and suffering. You can, and do, help 
your loved ones here and in the spirit 
world, for they think and feel just as 
you do. We pray you, do all the good 
you can while living. That will make 
every one happy here and in the spirit 
world. 

A knowledge of the teaching of "Soul 
Science, the Proof of Life after Death," 
will have a profound influence on chil- 
dren. Parents often mark their chil- 
dren's minds by thinking and talking 
along certain lines. The home is the 
place where they raise and teach their 
children, who will remember, as long 
as they live, just how they were raised 



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and what they were taught to believe, 
in their homes. 

When the little one is playing on the 
floor, if the parents were to give it 
something sharp, or throw something 
sharp near it on the floor, the little one 
would be likely to pick it up, and hurt 
itself. They could not blame the child, 
nor should they punish it for being 
hurt. They are the ones that should be 
blamed and punished ; not the child. It 
is just so with children. They are in- 
fluenced by your life and conduct. 

Parents, talk to your children. 
Mothers, talk to your daughters. Take 
them into your confidence and tell them 
the secrets of life, so they will know 
how to take care of, and protect, their 
bodies ; and if anything appears wrong 
to them, they will tell you, and in that 



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way you may be the cause of saving 
them much suffering, or even death. If 
you do not tell them at home, they may 
learn in a perverted fashion, away 
from home, and it may be too late then 
to save them. Just so, fathers, tell your 
sons all about themselves. Teach them 
not to smoke, chew, drink, or gamble. 
Tell them that these are only evil hab- 
its, which they can live without; that 
if God intended that boys or men should 
smoke, He would have created them 
with a smoke-stack on their heads. Ask 
them how they would like to see their 
father with an old pipe in his mouth, 
or tobacco-juice running down his chin. 
Tell them not to drink any kind of liq- 
uor, that it is not the last glass that 
makes a person drunk, as you will hear 
it said, but it is the first one ; for if they 



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never take the first glass they will 
never get drunk. 

When a young man has taken his 
first glass, others will begin to treat 
him, and the first thing he knows, he 
will get into a fight — it may be with 
his best friend— be brought home 
drunk, and thus disgrace his parents 
and may be the cause of his becoming 
a drunkard. And they will remember 
it as long as they live. 

Parents blame their children for be- 
ing mean. We do not blame the chil- 
dren so much as we do the parents, for 
when those children were born, they 
were poor little innocent babes, could 
do no harm, and were not then bad 
children. You raise your children at 
home, and if they are bad, you must 



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have raised them that way yourselves, 
and did not train them right. 

Speak only the truth to your chil- 
dren, and they will respect you and 
your word, and be a credit to you. You 
may try to think you are deceiving your 
children, but they are watching you, 
and their minds are very active. They 
will see you doing wrong, and although 
they may not say anything to you about 
it, they will be sure to follow your ex- 
ample. They are all the time watching 
and waiting for the time to come when 
they can deceive you. Parents should 
tell their children the truth if they ex- 
pect the children to tell them the same, 
and the best place to do that is in the 
home. 

Children are not bad if not made so. 
Parents, you are teaching your chil- 



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dren every day, by your lives. When 
you do teach, or tell them, the truth, you 
are drawing in, and around, yourselves 
and children, that class of spirits and 
conditions that will impress or cause 
the children to do right. When you do 
wrong, you are teaching your children, 
and are drawing in and around them 
and yourself, such conditions as will 
encourage them to do wrong, the same 
as you are doing, and when your chil- 
dren do wrong, as a general thing, you 
will blame some one else for teaching 
them to do wrong, when really the 
cause is in their own homes. 

Parents, teach your children that 
whenever they do wrong, though they 
may not tell any one, or may try to 
hide it or keep it from you, they will 
suffer for it, whether they tell you or 



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not, and they will not have to wait un- 
til it is found out, or wait until they 
are dead and then commence to suffer, 
but that when they tell the truth and 
do right, they are going to feel happy, 
and other children will see that they 
are happy, and will want to know the 
cause, — and of course, they will tell 
them all about it. They cannot keep it 
to themselves. They will "give it 
away". Just so, when they think they 
can do wrong, without its being known 
or found out, they will appear guilty, 
and will talk the way they feel, — will 
tell on themselves. They cannot help 
it, or keep it to themselves. 

"Soul Science, the Proof of Life after 
Death" teaches how to get, and have, 
more confidence in self, and in home, 
and how to make this home a paradise. 



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It will show every one the way to have 
confidence, and drive out all fear, hat- 
red and jealousy, and how to help im- 
plant love in the hearts of all humanity. 
It will rob the grave of victory, and 
death of its sting. All who read it, and 
observe its precepts, need not fear the 
grave or death, — a fear which has 
caused so much mental suffering 
throughout all the ages past. The 
grave is only a place in which to bury 
the material body. Why should they 
fear it? Death only means that their 
life work is finished ! 

After any one has worked hard and 
faithfully for a day of ten hours, he is 
glad his day's work is done, so that he 
can go home and rest. He is not afraid 
to go home, for he knows where he is 
going, and what he will do, and whom 



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he will see, when he gets there. The 
home belongs to him and his. They 
have made it just what it is. They do 
not fear or dread to go to their home. 
Why, we repeat, should people fear 
death, when it only means that they are 
going to their home in the spirit world, 
to rest and enjoy that which they have 
worked for? They have worked long, 
and are tired ; why should they fear go- 
ing to their home, which they built for 
themselves according to the plans, and 
with the material, they have provided 
for it. There is something wrong; it 
is useless to ask what it is. They say 
they are good people. Then why will 
they fear death? 



CHAPTER XXXIII 

THE TRUTH 

The Truth is the most simple thing 
in the world to speak. Any one who 
can speak can tell the Truth, for it is 
natural, even with a little child. If you 
will respect the Truth you can respect 
your neighbor, your neighbor will re- 
spect you, he will look up to you, and 
you will respect yourself ; it may be the 
cause of your making something out of 
yourself, building up a good business, 
and of your becoming loved and re- 
spected by every one. 

Living the Truth is the only kind of 
life that will make you happy here and 



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hereafter. The Truth is respected by 
rich and poor, low and high, king and 
ruler — all alike. The Truth makes peo- 
ple free to think, act and do. The Truth 
will rob jealousy of its fruit. Woe to 
him who cannot stand up and face the 
Truth. Some people are doing all they 
can today to keep out of the way of 
Truth. The Truth will lead the on- 
ward march through life. 

One does not have to stop and think 
to tell the Truth, for it is perfectly nat- 
ural to tell it. Yet there are those who 
are going to great expense and doing 
a l l they can to keep the Truth from the 
people, and keep them in ignorance ; for 
by so doing they can make them their 
slaves and keep them from progressing. 

Truth and Freedom go hand in hand, 
even as slavery and suffering are the 



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fruits of ignorance. If every person 
only knew the Truth and what it meant 
to him, this would be a happier and 
better world. 



CHAPTER XXXIV 

DESTINY AND HEREDITY 

Man has been taught to believe in 
Destiny and Heredity, which teaching 
has caused some to pass out of life long 
before they would pass had they not 
been taught that way. It has caused 
men to go through much unnecessary 
suffering because they had been taught 
to believe that God had destined every 
person to a certain death by disease or 
accident. 

Those who teach such beliefs have 
taken away the power God has given to 
man, and have thus helped to destroy 
the use of his body and limbs and to 



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make him as helpless as a babe. He is 
taught that he cannot avoid accidents, 
that his days are numbered, and that 
the time is appointed when he is to die 
by a certain accident or disease. Thus 
he does not try to avoid accidents nor 
take better care of his health. When 
he gets into a place where he sees there 
is danger, he thinks he knows what his 
fate is, and instead of trying to avoid 
this accident, he will stand there and be 
killed; whereas, if he had not been 
taught that way, he could and would 
have avoided the danger and not been 
killed. 

Because a man knows that there have 
been certain members of his family for 
the last ten generations who have 
abused or misused their bodies, con- 
tracted colds which have settled on 



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their lungs, and caused them to pass 
out of life with tuberculosis or other 
trouble, he thinks that he must inherit 
the same disease; and, just as soon as 
he contracts a cold by not taking proper 
care of himself, he commences to 
cough, as he believes he has inherited 
consumption, and must die that death. 
He thinks that all the treatments and 
medicines in the world will not cure 
him of his malady. Of course, he gives 
up all hope, and dies the way he pre- 
dicted he would. By his thinking such 
thoughts, he is attracting the spirits of 
people who passed into the spirit world 
with the same disease, and those spirits 
are around him, and make him feel just 
as they did before they passed out of 
life. 

Those who believe in destiny and 



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heredity, and advocate that belief, are 
the cause of sending many people into 
the spirit world before they should. Be- 
lieving that way, and not trying to live 
rightly, cause much suffering in the 
world to-day. 

The cause of many diseases and 
much suffering, as is explained more 
fully in the chapter under the head of 
"Diseases and Treatments", is that 
people do not take care of themselves 
as they should ; for example, they may 
either eat too much, or not the proper 
food. Heredity has nothing to do with 
what you eat, how you dress, or take 
care of your health ; there is something 
within all people that tells them when 
their hunger is satisfied. If they obey 
this inward monitor and eat just 
enough to be satisfied, they will never 



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eat too much, will not be ill from over- 
taxing their digestion, and will live 
longer. 

Heredity has nothing to do with a 
person's over-eating, and thus causing 
him to have a stroke of apoplexy, and 
dying from it. If, after eating certain 
food, you find that it does not agree 
with you, do not eat it again ; or, if you 
like certain food, do not over-eat of it; 
do not make yourself sick with it and 
then blame your parents or some one 
else, or destiny or heredity, for it, or 
the spirit forces for allowing such con- 
ditions around you. Use your reason 
and common sense at all times. Use 
your spirit eyes to see what is around 
you, spiritually ; drive away what you 
do not want, and welcome the good. You 



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make your own Destiny and Heredity 
yourself, by your way of living and 
thinking here. 



CHAPTER XXXV 

STOP PUBLISHING ABOUT CRIMES AND 
MURDERS 

If all the evil deeds and crimes that 
are committed were not published, 
there would not be nearly so much 
crime of all kinds going on in the world 
as there is today. Every time we read 
about a crime we are thinking about it, 
and as we think, we attract that class 
of spirits to us. Not only do we at- 
tract them to us, but as we read, sug- 
gestions come to us which are very 
harmful, and may cause us to do evil. 

There are all kinds of people think- 
ing all kinds of thoughts, and when a 
person who has been thinking of mur- 



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dering some one, reads just how, when 
and where, a certain crime was com- 
mitted, given in full detail, and pub- 
lished in the paper, it suggests some- 
thing to that person, and, through that 
suggestion it may cause him to commit 
a crime that he never would have 
thought of had he not read it in the 
paper. Just as long as the details of 
these awful crimes are allowed to be 
published, just so long will people read 
them, and the greater will be the num- 
ber of crimes suggested and committed. 
Whatever you are reading about, you 
are attracting that class of spirits to 
you, and the more that class of spirits 
is around you, the more they are im- 
pressing you to do what they did, or 
wanted to do while they were living in 
their bodies. How many times do boys 



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run away from home after reading 
some cheap novel, or attending cheap 
moving pictures that show the killing 
of Indians, etc. They were good boys, 
had good parents, and were raised all 
right. Or maybe some neighbors' boys 
were telling them what they had read, 
heard or seen, and that was enough. 
Such exciting stories or pictures are 
very apt to impress boys to steal money, 
buy a revolver, and run away in search 
of just the excitement they read of, 
heard, or saw on the screen. Probably 
you could not have hired those boys to 
steal, or run away, before they read 
about the Indians. 

People have committed all sorts of 
crimes after reading about them. When 
you read something funny, it causes 
you to laugh, and you would not have 



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laughed at that time if you had not been 
reading about it. If one thing you read 
in the newspaper will cause you to 
laugh, another thing will cause you to 
cry, and thus act according to what you 
read. As you read, so will you think, 
and as you think, so are you. 

Your life here and in the hereafter 
depends upon what you read, your 
thoughts, acts and deeds. Therefore, 
as newspapers and books are the 
thoughts of men made manifest, and as 
those thoughts have power to mold the 
minds of those who read them, they 
may be the means of causing the eleva- 
tion and purifying, or the degradation 
and downfall, of the readers. Books or 
papers detailing murder and crime 
should be prohibited and not allowed 
publication, 



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Thought is all-powerful, and in time 
of war we have a very good illustration 
of its power. For many a century, cer- 
tain peoples have had it impressed upon 
their minds, by those in authority, and 
by some writers and authors, that 
Might makes Right, and as their rulers 
had allowed greed and the desire for 
conquest to take possession of them, 
thus drawing around them spirits of 
those who had oppressed and made war 
upon fellow-beings in past ages, they 
had become obsessed by those evil spir- 
its, and impressed by them to do the 
atrocious deeds of which they have been 
guilty — deeds that have never been 
equalled for cruelty. 

In recent years war has become an 
institution of barbaric cruelty, some 
modern wars never having been 



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equalled in ferocity by any of the un- 
civilized nations of the past. In these 
wars, crimes have been committed such 
as were unknown in the dark ages, 
crimes against humanity; the ethics of 
war and of honorable warfare and civ- 
ilization have been outraged by those 
who have proved themselves worse than 
barbarians. 

Such have been the results of so- 
called "modern" warfare. Some of 
those people have become so evil in 
their thoughts that even their religion 
has been distorted into a self -worship, 
and a worship of a god of their own 
evil imaginations, a god of war, de- 
lighting in the slaughter of innocent 
women and children; they call upon 
this god to help them to do these deeds 
of evil. Thus, they call around them 



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the powers of evil, who are then taking 
the place of the true God, and leading 
them and their poor, benighted people, 
to the verge of destruction. Those are 
the fruits of so-called modern warfare, 
that has been waged upon humanity. 

As surely as a man thinketh in his 
heart, so is he; and his thoughts will 
bear fruit, either for good or evil. If 
more books were written telling us how 
to live aright and serve the true God, 
the Spirit of Life, whose dwelling-place 
is within our hearts, teaching us that 
the God of Life is not a cruel God, who 
delights in war and murder, but that 
He is a God of Love, who desires all 
His creatures to live in love and har- 
mony with one another as brethren; 
then love would be the ruling power and 
we would have neither prisons nor elec- 



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trie chairs. Then would men progress 
toward true civilization, and each man 
would know where Heaven is, and what 
his life will be after so-called "Death." 



CHAPTER XXXVI 

LIARS AND SLANDERERS 

It takes a smart man to be a good 
liar ; he has to keep thinking, and keep 
his mind on the alert at all times, in 
order that people may not catch him in 
his lies, and he will stay awake many 
an hour, and put in many sleepless 
nights, trying to think and formulate 
another lie to offset the last lie he told 
the same person. He will not only lie 
to one person, but he will lie to every 
one, and he will lie when the truth 
would answer the best purpose. 

Those people are in all walks of life. 
Lying becomes a disease, and often 



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causes the person to become obsessed. 
Why will people talk to try to hurt one 
another, when there is no one that is 
perfect? Every person has his faults; 
some may have greater faults than oth- 
ers, some may not show their faults, yet 
they may have greater faults than 
those they are talking about. 

As a general thing, people talk about 
others on account of envy or jealousy; 
and yet if all who talk about others, 
either through jealousy or otherwise, 
only knew that when they are talking 
about others, they are talking about, 
and hurting, themselves, they would 
cease to do so. Just go home, and look 
over your past life, and see what you 
are doing; just think for one minute, if 
you please, that there are other people 
in this world. Say to yourself, "Well, 



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who and what am I, and am I doing 
unto others as I would have them do 
unto me?" 

Never mind your neighbors' busi- 
ness, but pay strict attention to your 
own. Think of your past life. You 
know it better than any one else does. 
See if you have not, yourself, done 
more and worse things than you know 
or have heard about the person of whom 
you are talking. Yet you will never 
talk about the mean things you have 
done, or were thinking of doing. Never 
mind your neighbor; you are the one 
you want to watch and to care for. You 
cannot live or die for others; you can 
only live and die for yourself. 

You should do only the very best 
deeds to all, and think the very best 
thoughts of all. For the thoughts that 



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you are sending to a brother, good or 
evil, will certainly return to the sender. 
You do not understand that we are all 
brothers and sisters, and that whatever 
you say and do unto others, you say 
and do unto yourself; not only that, 
but whatever you are saying about oth- 
ers, you are attracting the same 
thing to yourself, and are bringing 
yourself on the same level with those 
about whom you are talking. 

Usually people talk about those who 
are better and higher in life than they 
are themselves, for they are not afraid 
of those beneath them ; they know that 
they cannot hurt them by talking about 
them. Instead of talking about, and 
trying to disgrace, or degrade, one an- 
other, when all are low enough at the 
best, without making them any lower 



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or worse than they are, if they would 
first sweep their own dooryard, and at- 
tend to their own business before they 
attempt to take care of their neighbors' 
business, they would have all they could 
do, and would be better off ; and we as- 
sure you that their neighbors also 
would be. If they would do that way, 
and speak a kind word, instead of a 
cross one, to every person, what a bless- 
ing they would bestow upon themselves 
and their community ! How they would 
be loved by every one ! 

You do not like people to talk about 
you all the time, neither do they like 
you to talk about them all the time. 
The people that talk about you are will- 
ing to go half way if you are willing 
to go the other half; that is, you stop 
talking about them, and see if you will 



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not notice a great change in yourself 
and in your neighbors. 

No one can love you if you have no 
love within you, for if you had, you 
would not, or could not, talk about 
people the way you do. If you will 
keep on talking about every one, after 
a while you will begin to talk about and 
hate yourself, and will spend the lat- 
ter part of your days in the mad-house. 
If you do not believe this, just keep on 
the way you are going; you have a good 
start, for you are on the right road to 
that place. If you were not, you could 
not and would not talk the way you are 
doing now. 

People do not like to have anything 
to do with a person who is always talk- 
ing about his relatives or neighbors, 
because they are afraid he will start to 



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talk about them next. A person that 
is talking about this one or that one, 
never seeing the good in any one, is a 
slanderer; he is a person that must be 
watched ; he cannot be trusted. 

Slanderers are like robbers, who rob 
people of their character and reputa- 
tion, by talking, and lowering those 
whom they talk about; people who have 
worked hard all their lives, to build 
themselves up honorably. Men are 
murderers who murder their victims 
by degrees, by taking away their char- 
acter, the most precious thing they 
nave ; they cause people to become mur- 
derers. When a person will take his 
own life, after he has been talked about 
and slandered, he commits murder. 

We could honor a thief in preference 
to a liar and a slanderer, because we 



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can lock our doors and hide from a 
thief, but we cannot lock ourselves up 
or hide from a lying or a slanderous 
tongue. People who do those things 
have not developed their spirituality. 
If they had, they would, or could, not 
talk about one another. The best rem- 
edy for lying and slandering is to open 
the spiritual eyes, so that one may be 
able to drive away lying spirits, and 
speak the truth at all times, and pray 
for the "Good Spirits" to give light to 
the liars and slanderers, and to show 
them the way to the Truth. 

Remember, that according to God's 
laws, if a person has talked about an- 
other, and has injured him, or tried to 
do so in any way, while living, and if 
he has not already asked that person 
to forgive him for all wrongs and mean 



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things he has said about him, he will 
have to do so as soon as he passes into 
the spirit world, before he will ever be 
able to progress there. 

How much easier it is for a person 
while living to go direct to the home of 
those whom he has tried to injure, or 
who have tried to injure him, by back- 
biting and slandering, and ask their 
forgiveness, than to wait until he or 
they have passed into spirit life. You 
must forgive and be forgiven, either 
while living here, or after passing into 
the spirit world, before you can pro- 
gress and be happy either here or there. 



CHAPTER XXXVII 

OBSESSION 

Any person is liable to be obsessed at 
any time. The best way to avoid it is 
to lead a clean, pure life and make up 
your mind that you will not allow any 
one to lead you in the wrong direction. 
Know yourself, and pray to the Good 
Spirit forces to lead you aright. If all 
would, or could, see spiritually what is 
around them, and drive the evil away, 
there would not be so much obsession 
as there is today. 

What would you think of a young 
lady who would go to a strange city 
and accept the invitation of the first 



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man she met to go with him to view the 
city? She would go without knowing 
the first thing about him, although hav- 
ing friends in that city who would have 
been glad to go with her, had she called 
on them. You certainly would not have 
a very high opinion of her. What opin- 
ion can we have of you, when you are 
being led all over the city and every 
other place by some one you do not or 
cannot see with your material eyes; 
they are spirits that you cannot or do 
not see ; they are strangers to you and 
may or may not lead you aright. 

You have friends in the spirit world 
(which world is right around you) who 
would be glad to come at your call, and 
help and lead you aright, if you were 
to call on them. You should use your 
spirit eyes, inasmuch as the great Cre- 



OBSESSION 255 

ator has given them to you for use, to 
see how to guide and protect your spir- 
itual body against evil spirits, so there 
would be no danger of your becoming 
obsessed. 



CHAPTER XXXVIII 

DISEASES AND TREATMENTS 

As there are different diseases in the 
world today, so there are different 
methods of treating them. No doubt 
these different treatments are all do- 
ing good, some more than others. 

There is one certain kind of treat- 
ment, which is a natural and universal 
treatment, which is as old as the human 
race, and will continue to be practised 
as long as time lasts. Everybody prac- 
tises it, even the animals, and if man 
were to practise it more, or as much as 
the animals, he would not be complain- 
ing so much and would have better 



DISEASES AND TREATMENTS 257 

health and live longer than he does. 

Anyone can practise it, even a little 
child, for it does not require the knowl- 
edge of a professor to use it. In fact, 
it is being practised today all over the 
world, among all classes of people, and 
it has the largest number of patients, 
more than all the other methods of 
treatment, combined. 

To those who believe in other treat- 
ments, when emergency arises, this, we 
would say, is so easy to give and apply 
to one's self, at any time of the day or 
night, that one does not have to go to 
the hospital to take the treatment, but 
it can be given in any place. It has 
been applied to, and it has cured. Loco- 
motor Ataxia, Paralysis, acute or 
chronic Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lum- 
bago, Nervousness, Obesity and many 



258 SOUL SCIENCE 

other troubles, after all other treat- 
ments and known remedies have failed. 
It does not make any difference who 
the persons are; they can apply this 
natural treatment, first and last. 

When a little child falls down, any 
one would think from the noise it made, 
and from the sound of the bump, that 
the little one had cracked its head. 
What is the first thing its mother will 
do? Will she run for a doctor or a 
bottle of medicine? Neither. She will 
run and pick up the child, rub its head, 
or wherever it is hurt, and in a minute 
or two, the child is playing again! 
When you bump your forehead until it 
seems as though you saw a million 
stars, the first thing you do is to rub 
the place with your hand, which re- 
stores the circulation, and thus eases 



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DISEASES AND TREATMENTS 259 

the pain quicker than any amount of 
medicine could. When you whip a cat 
or dog, just as soon as the animal gets 
away from you, it will lick the place or 
rub it with its paw. 

The first instinct with all, whenever 
they injure themselves, is to put a hand 
to the place injured, and rub it at once. 
In other words, the first impression one 
receives, on being hurt, is to rub or 
manipulate the injured place, and if 
that impression is followed, they are 
relieved of their pain. The blow causes 
the blood to stop circulating, which con- 
tracts the muscles and wherever there 
is contraction, when that part of the 
body is moved, it causes pain. By rub- 
bing and massaging the part where the 
contraction is, thus causing the blood to 



260 SOUL SCIENCE 

circulate and the muscles to relax, the 
pain ceases. 

The general cause of all pain is con- 
traction of the muscles, and nothing 
will remove contraction sooner than 
manipulation. Because this form of 
treatment is ancient, it is none the less 
valuable as a remedial measure. Even 
when used with little skill, it fre- 
quently does much good, and that it sel- 
dom works harm is evident from the 
vast numbers who apply this art indis- 
criminately ! 

People do not need to have faith in 
order to have their bodies massaged, to 
break up contraction of the muscles in 
order that the blood may circulate ; be- 
cause the blood is circulating both day 
and night. Faith has nothing to do 
with it. If your body is properly mas- 






DISEASES AND TREATMENTS 261 

saged your blood will circulate, and by 
keeping up proper circulation, the im- 
purities of the blood are carried off 
through the liver and natural channels 
of the body. The blood keeps the body 
warm, and when there is proper circu- 
lation, the heart can beat regularly. 
Anyone can rub the body, which will 
cause circulation, and thus break up 
the contraction of the muscles. If they 
understand massaging scientifically, 
much more benefit will be derived. 

While the art of Massage is best 
learned by personal instruction, yet 
with some knowledge of anatomy and 
physiology, good sense, and a general 
understanding of the effects aimed at, 
anyone can accomplish much good by 
this means of treatment. If everyone 
who gives massage treatments would 



262 SOUL SCIENCE 

live clean, pure lives, their treatments 
would have a better effect on their pa- 
tients and that would help their busi- 
ness. 

The Creator has given us our hands 
to use, to keep our bodies well, so that 
tne spirit can carry out its mission 
while on Earth. All should use their 
hands to relieve the body of pain. 
Schools should teach how to apply this 
natural treatment, scientifically, so as 
to get better results, and thus remove 
the cause and effect of many diseases. 
Ill every form of massage, one must not 
be so strenuous as to do harm. The 
patient will usually inform the oper- 
ator if he is being made uncomfortable 
by the treatment, and the feelings of 
tne patient are a reliable guide. 

Preliminary to giving massage, the 



DISEASES AND TREATMENTS 263 

patient should be placed in a comfort- 
able, relaxed position. As the giving 
of massage, especially general massage, 
requires not a little strength on the 
part of the operator, one who is not 
possessed of considerable muscular 
force and endurance should not at- 
tempt to specialize in this art, for signs 
of fatigue on the part of the operator 
will have a depressing effect upon the 
patient. 

There are millions of pores in the 
human skin which act as suction-valves 
and draw into the body many kinds of 
diseases. We may carry the germs 
around with us, which we have ab- 
sorbed through the pores of our skin, 
for years; after awhile, through im- 
proper circulation of the blood and by 
reason of our system being in a passive 



264 SOUL SCIENCE 

condition, we become ill with a certain 
disease, which we may have carried 
around with us for years. Then we 
wonder where we have been to contract 
such a disease, as there is no one 
around us who has had it, and we may 
be the first one in years to have it in 
the neighborhood. That is how many 
diseases are carried around and spread 
broadcast over parts of the country 
where they were never known before. 

There are many causes of disease. 
People continually complain of being 
ill, when they bring much of their sick- 
ness upon themselves, by improper food 
and poor circulation of the blood, 
which, in turn, affects the heart and 
every other part of the body. Sunstroke 
cannot be called a disease, but it is 
caused by excessive heat affecting the 



DISEASES AND TREATMENTS 265 

circulation. If persons have improper 
circulation, they will have trouble with 
their liver, bowels and stomach, also 
constipation, fever and resultant head- 
aches. If people will think good 
thoughts, eat what agrees with them, 
have proper circulation and live ac- 
cording to the teachings of "Soul Sci- 
ence, the Proof of Life after Death," 
they will live long and enjoy the best of 
health. 



CHAPTER XXXIX 

HOW TO CONDUCT SERVICES 

Open the meeting by singing one or 
more appropriate hymns or songs in 
harmony with our teachings, then read 
a prose selection or a poem suitable for 
the occasion. All should then join in 
reading our Creed, after which an in- 
vocation along our line of teaching 
should be given, something similar to 
this: 

"Thou great Source of all Life, we 
have gathered here this day in Thy 
Name, praying that something may be 
said or done that will make us happier 
and better people by coming here, and 



HOW TO CONDUCT SERVICES 267 

that we will have a better understand- 
ing and realization of what life is. Help 
us to realize that we and Thee are one, 
and that we are all brothers and sisters, 
and whatever we do unto one another 
we do only unto ourselves and Thee. 
Help us to understand and realize that 
we are all Gods, that the Kingdom of 
God is within us, that all of us are 
standing before the great Judgment 
Bar every moment of our lives; that 
whether we do right or wrong the God 
that is within us is judging us accord- 
ing to our thoughts and deeds, and that 
our punishment or reward commences 
right here on earth, according to what 
we do while we are living in the flesh. 
Help us to realize this, we pray Thee — 
that we are all building our home in 
Heaven every day of our lives by our 



268 SOUL SCIENCE 

thoughts and deeds, and some day, soon- 
er or later, we shall go and can only go 
to our own home — the home which we 
have built for ourselves in Heaven. If 
we create no sunshine in our lives here, 
we will not have it there. Help and 
give us strength, we pray Thee, to over- 
come all our many weaknesses. This 
we ask in the name of all. Amen !" 

The leader should know in advance 
what chapter he is going to read, ex- 
plain or preach from, in "Soul Science, 
the Proof of Life after Death," and 
should sing songs and read a poem or a 
prose selection in harmony with the 
subject chosen, which will help to ex- 
plain his teaching. It would be well to 
announce the subject and make a few 
remarks before reading the poem and 
singing, and it would be well if these 



HOW TO CONDUCT SERVICES 269 

were all along the same line of thought, 
as it would help to impress on the minds 
of his hearers the subject for the day. 

Do not talk until you or your hearers 
are all tired out; limit your talk to a 
half of three quarters of an hour. Al- 
ways open the meeting at the time you 
have announced, and do not try at one 
meeting to tell all you know about 
"Soul Science, the Proof of Life after 
Death;" but enough to make the audi- 
ence want to learn more by coming 
to hear you again. Never get into a 
heated debate with any one at your 
Sunday services, as it will hurt you, 
and may cause unnecessary criticism of 
your meetings. If you cannot convert 
a person or cause him to think the same 
as you do, by your preaching to him in 
your own way, do not try to argue with 



270 SOUL SCIENCE 

him to change his mind, for you will 
never convert a person against his own 
will. You will only lose time, and per- 
haps cause trouble. If he wants to re- 
main in darkness, let him do so. When 
you have done all you can, you fulfil 
your mission. If any one wants to 
argue or debate, let him select some 
other night. Always close the meeting 
standing, singing, and offering the clos- 
ing prayer, either the following or one 
similar: 

"We do thank Thee, Most Holy and 
Divine Intelligence, for this Hour ; may 
it be one that will be long remembered 
for the words that have been spoken to 
us, and may they sink deep into our 
hearts, and bring forth much good; 
and as we leave this church we ask for 
the blessing of the Spirit world to go 



HOW TO CONDUCT SERVICES 271 

with us, and to be and abide with us, 
now and forever more. Amen." 

There should be a midweek meeting 
once a week, conducted about the same 
as the Sunday meeting, with song, 
reading of our Creed, and offering a 
Prayer, either the following, or one 
similar : 

"Great, Infinite Source of all Life, 
Thou over-ruling Soul of the Universe, 
we do thank Thee that our lives have 
been spared and that we are again per- 
mitted to meet here in Thy name, pray- 
ing that Thou wouldst help us to re- 
move the veil of ignorance from our 
spiritual eyes, so that we may see more 
clearly, and have a better and clearer 
insight as to what life is ; that we may 
be able to go forth into this world and 
fulfil our life mission, and, while here, 



272 SOUL SCIENCE 

be able to lead and show others who are 
in darkness the true way to life and 
light. Help and inspire us with Thy 
Love and we will give Thee the praise, 
evermore. Amen !" 

Explain the subject to your audience, 
and let the meeting be an open one, to 
give all a chance to talk on whatever 
subject has been chosen for that meet- 
ing, and to give their experiences. 
Never allow any one to take up the en- 
tire time speaking or giving experi- 
ences, at the midweek meeting. If 
much has to be said, it can be finished 
at the next midweek meeting. You can 
have the same subject for discussion as 
many times as you please, if it be agree- 
able to the majority present. It would 
be well to announce at the Sunday ser- 
vice the subject for your midweek 



HOW TO CONDUCT SERVICES 273 

meeting. It will advertise all your 
meetings. Close with song, and a 
prayer, either the following or one sim- 
ilar: 

"We do thank you, dear Spirit 
Friends, for the many blessings we 
have enjoyed in the past, and the health 
and strength of this hour; and as we 
leave we ask that the blessing of the 
Spirit world may go with and help us 
to be better men and women. These 
favors we would ask you. Amen." 

Classes should be, and can be, held in 
homes. Open such classes with song, 
reading of our Creed, and offering a 
Prayer, either the following or one sim- 
ilar: : :> ] 

"Thou great God, the Source of all 
Life, we do thank Thee for the many 
blessings we have had, and are still en- 



274 SOUL SCIENCE 

joying at the present hour. We pray 
that we may all continue to enjoy the 
same blessings, and we ask Thee to help 
us do right. Inspire us, and fill us with 
knowledge, that we may understand 
ourselves, so that we may be able to 
know how to live aright, be better peo- 
ple, and know how to enjoy the bless- 
ings that are in store for us, and are 
even now all around us. Help us to 
open our spiritual eyes, and to have a 
better spiritual understanding than we 
have ever had. We want to do right, 
and we ask Thee to give us strength 
and guide our footsteps in the right 
way, that we may live a better life in 
the future. These favors we ask in the 
name of all that is good, pure and up- 
right. Amen !" 

If you are living in a town where 



HOW TO CONDUCT SERVICES 275 

public services according to "Soul Sci- 
ence" teachings are held on Sunday and 
in midweek, all should attend, and you 
should hold your home meeting, or 
class, on some other evening through 
the week. In towns and country places 
where no public meetings are held, hold 
one in your own home, and invite your 
friends once a week to read and prac- 
tise from "Soul Science, the Proof of 
Life after Death," as it teaches you. 
Close the class meeting with song and 
prayer, either the following, or one sim- 
ilar: 

"Angels of Love, we do thank you for 
this hour, and that we have been able 
to feel and know that our loved ones 
from the Spirit realm have been near 
to us tonight, trying to impress and 
manifest themselves to us. Oh, may 



276 SOUL SCIENCE 

we ever live such pure lives that our 
loved ones will be able to manifest in 
such way that we can see them. This 
we ask in the name of our loved ones. 
Amen !" 



CHAPTER XL 



DEATH IS NATURAL 



Death is as natural as birth, then 
why should we fear it? It is as essen- 
tial as growth. If it were not for 
growth, there could or would be no 
birth; and, if it were not for birth, 
there would be no spirit or life. Life 
is not complete until death. Death is 
but the change of one form, and birth 
the beginning of another. 

Death is not a punishment; it is only 
the fulfilment of God's laws. Our lives 
and life histories, which all are writing 
by their thoughts, acts and deeds, are 
not complete until death takes place. 



278 SOUL SCIENCE 

No excuse will be accepted then ; for all 
have made and kept their own records, 
and have their own life-histories with 
them, just according to the way they 
have themselves written them, and will 
have to read them themselves in their 
spirit home, to get their reward, for 
either good or evil. 

No one should ever worry about 
death. It only takes a few seconds to 
die, while it takes many years to live 
here. If anyone is going to worry at 
all, he should worry about how to live 
rightly, for they who live right lives 
will die rightly. Put in all the time you 
have in thinking and living rightly. 
Never mind death ; it will use you justly 
when it comes and will take you to your 
home in the spirit world where you 
belong. 



DEATH IS NATURAL 279 

Oh, how beautiful is Death to those 
who have had their spirit eyes opened, 
and can see and know what is around 
them, spiritually, and what their life 
will be in the spirit world, — who have 
lived clean, pure, just lives, and have 
overcome evil by good ! 



CHAPTER XLI 

THE RESURRECTION MORN 

The Resurrection morning will come, 
but there never will be a day when all 
the billions and billions of people that 
have lived in this world will arise in 
their material bodies and be known or 
judged for the good or evil deeds done 
while in the body. That would be ut- 
terly impossible. 

Take for instance, men who have 
been working in and around rail-mills, 
who have fallen into large vats of hot 
iron, so hot when their bodies struck 
the vats, that they were instantly de- 
stroyed, and became as part of the 



THE RESURRECTION MORN 281 

iron. No one knows what railroad 
tracks those rails are laid on. Again, 
when people have been blown all to 
pieces, or when different fishes have 
devoured the same body that was 
drowned at sea, or when persons had 
their bodies cremated and the ashes 
scattered to the four winds on land or 
sea, pray tell me, how could those pieces 
of bodies all get together on a Resur- 
rection day? 

The only world that there is, is the 
world that we are living in, and that is 
within us, and at death our material 
world has come to an end ; we lay aside 
our material bodies. That is our Res- 
urrection day, for immediately we re- 
ceive our spiritual body. Every per- 
son that lives must die; so at death it 
does not make any difference where we 
may be at that time; there and then 
will be our Resurrection Morn. 



CHAPTER XLII 

MY WORLD 

This body of mine is a house of mine, 

It is all the world for me; 

It is shared by my good and my evil 

thoughts 
Who live in my world with me. 

I have built this world within myself, 
It is day and night with me ; 
The good and evil I have ever done 
Live in my world with me. 

No matter what you or others may say, 
My Spirit dwells in there with me; 
And my treasures are my golden deeds 
And are in this world with me. 



MY WORLD 283 

This world of mine holds all I possess ; 
It is specially made for me, 
To hold all the good and evil deeds 
That are in this world with me. 

While living in this world of mine 
I have friends who stand by me; 
But none can do the work of mine 
That is in this world for me. 

When I cast aside this house of clay 
For the spirit realm, with glee, 
Reward awaits me for the deeds 
That shared this world with me. 

If my deeds have been good, my reward 

will be great, 
Good spirits will flock to me ; 
They will welcome me there, for the 

good done here, 
To that Spirit World which is for me. 



CHAPTER XLIII 



PRAYER 



"Thou Great Jehovah, the All-ruling 
Soul of the Universe, whom men call 
God, Good or Infinite Intelligence, call 
Him or It by what name we choose, we 
realize and know that Thou art the God 
that causeth this mortal flesh to walk, 
talk, and exist in its present form. We 
ask and pray Thee, to help us to have 
a better understanding from this hour, 
of what life is, and Whom Thou art. 
Fill us with Love and Kindness, inspire 
us always to do right, help us to walk 
in the right road; which will make us 
happier and better people while living 



PRAYER 285 

on this mortal plane of existence, so 
that when our life work is finished, it 
may be said of us, that we have made 
many homes happier and brighter by 
our having lived, and set a good exam- 
ple before the world. To Thee we will 
give the honor and praise. Amen. 
Amen." 



CONCLUSION 

The Author of "Soul Science, the 
Proof of Life after Death" could have 
written volumes on the different sub- 
jects contained in this book ; but instead 
of so doing, he has endeavored to place 
these thoughts before his readers in 
such a plain, concise and condensed 
form that all who may read it with an 
unbiased, liberal, mind, looking for the 
Truth, will find herein the true way to 
light and happiness. We beg our read- 
ers not to allow prejudice or hearsay to 
bias their judgment of this book, but to 
prove the thoughts and teachings here- 
in contained, and apply them to their 
own lives; then they will be in a posi- 



CONCLUSION 287 

tion to judge of its truth and worth. We 
know that the happiness of our lives, 
here and hereafter, does not depend 
upon the amount of matter and num- 
ber of volumes which we may have 
read, but upon what we understand, di- 
gest and practise in our daily life. 



A REQUEST 

It is the desire of the author of "Soul Science, 
the Proof of Life after Death" to further strengthen 
the Truth contained therein, and at the same time as- 
sist those who may wish to hold meetings, or organ- 
ize Societies and Churches in the interest of the Cause, 
by formulating a Manual to be used by all Ministers, 
Speakers and Teachers thereof. He will be glad if all 
readers of "Soul Science, the Proof of Life after 
Death" will be good enough to send him their names 
and addresses, so that he may keep in close touch with 
all who may read the book; thus he will be enabled 
to send them literature or other matter from time to 
time in regard to the same, that will be helpful to the 
work. 

The author desires, as a special favor, that any 
one who may have songs or poems original or selected, 
in harmony with the teachings of "Soul Science, the 
Proof of Life after Death" will send them to him, to 
be used in formulating such a Manual, or Song book. 
Any suggestions in regard to the same that readers 
may care to make will be gratefully received. 

Thanking all in advance, the author remains, 

Fraternally, 

FRANKLIN A. THOMAS 

20 Bickerstaff Street, 
Boston, Mass. 



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